Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTTIs death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Credit 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.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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