Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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 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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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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