From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTWelcome as the flowers in May.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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