Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTTI will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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