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 SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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