Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
WALTER SCOTTLove rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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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 I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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