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 SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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 the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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