He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
WALTER SCOTTHope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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