It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
WALTER SCOTTHeaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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