Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTTSilence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Come 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!
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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