Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
WALTER SCOTTHail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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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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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.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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 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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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