To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTTCrystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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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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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.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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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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