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.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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