We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
WALTER SCOTTI 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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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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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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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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