A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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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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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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