To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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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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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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