Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTOne crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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