From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTNovember’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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 man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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