Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTTFrom my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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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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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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