As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTHeap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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