We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTThe misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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