I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
WALTER SCOTTWhat a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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