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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again.

- Sir Walter Scott | Action Quotes

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

- Sir Walter Scott | Helping Other People Quotes

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

- Sir Walter Scott | Friendship Quotes

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.

- Sir Walter Scott | Friendship Quotes

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

- Sir Walter Scott | One Day Quotes

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

- Sir Walter Scott | Positive Quotes

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

- Sir Walter Scott | Hope Quotes

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

- Sir Walter Scott | Courage Quotes

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

- Sir Walter Scott | Getting Going Quotes

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

- Sir Walter Scott | Women's Movement Quotes

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

- Sir Walter Scott | Concentration Quotes

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

- Sir Walter Scott | Adversity Quotes

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

- Sir Walter Scott | Worthy Victories Quotes

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

- Sir Walter Scott | True Love Quotes