As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTT
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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