The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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