Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTTSleep in peace, and wake in joy.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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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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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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