Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
WALTER SCOTTTo the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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