Treason seldom dwells with courage.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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