Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTTWe build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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