Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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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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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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