War is the only game in which both sides lose.
WALTER SCOTTTears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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