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 SCOTTTo all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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