Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTTTo the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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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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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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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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