Quote by Walter Scott
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

To always be 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. – Walter Scott

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Carpe Diem
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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Age
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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. – Walter Scott

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Religion
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In the age of the individuals liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. – Theodor Adorno

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Age

My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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Age

To me – old age is always ten years older than I am. – John Burroughs

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Age

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords were all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. – Peter Ustinov

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Age

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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. – Kwame Nkrumah

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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. – Helen Keller

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I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely. – F. Murray Abraham

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