Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTTThe misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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