As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTGreatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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 paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm 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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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