Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTOne crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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