The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
WALTER SCOTTGreatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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