The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
WALTER SCOTTSleep in peace, and wake in joy.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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