Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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