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.
WALTER SCOTTThe man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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