Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTTCredit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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