From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTHope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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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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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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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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