War is the only game in which both sides lose.
WALTER SCOTTIs death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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