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.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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