Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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