Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTTOne crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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