Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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