Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
WALTER SCOTTLove rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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