Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTTTo all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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