Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTSleep in peace, and wake in joy.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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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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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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