A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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