Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
WALTER SCOTT
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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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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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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