A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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