Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTCrystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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