Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTTSleep in peace, and wake in joy.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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