Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
WALTER SCOTTI was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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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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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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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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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