Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
WALTER SCOTTHeaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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