The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
WALTER SCOTTTo all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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