90 ordspråk av Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . .
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