Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
WALTER SCOTTThe 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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