Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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