From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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