And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
WALTER SCOTTCaution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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