Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTTA Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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