From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTWill future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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 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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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