Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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