Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTGreat talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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