Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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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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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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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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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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