Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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 Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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