It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
WALTER SCOTTWhen true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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