Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTTHeaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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