One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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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 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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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