November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
WALTER SCOTTWhat a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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