As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTTo all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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