What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
WALTER SCOTTHeap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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 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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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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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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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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