Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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