Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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