Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
WALTER SCOTTThe happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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