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?
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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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