Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
WALTER SCOTTNothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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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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