And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
WALTER SCOTTWelcome as the flowers in May.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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 paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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