Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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