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Life Quotes by Walter Scott
- Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the…
- Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
- It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
- Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
- But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
- If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe…
- Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
- Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
- 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…
- The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when…
- We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared…
- One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
- And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle