Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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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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