If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
WALTER SCOTTA Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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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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