November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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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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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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