Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
WALTER SCOTTCrystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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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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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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