Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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