If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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