I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
WALTER SCOTTNovember’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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