Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTTThe willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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