To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTTAnd better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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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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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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