One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott
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More Quotes By Walter Scott
  1. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  2. Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

  3. I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.

  4. My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

  5. Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

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