We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTI was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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It 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.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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