We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTIt is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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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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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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