Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTTWho, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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