A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
WALTER SCOTTHope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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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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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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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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