Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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 paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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