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 SCOTTReal valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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