Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTTIf you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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