If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
WALTER SCOTTIf you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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