The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
WALTER SCOTTA glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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