Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTBlessed 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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I 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.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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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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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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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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