Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTTI 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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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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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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