We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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