Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
WALTER SCOTTCome fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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