Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
WALTER SCOTTReal valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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