From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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