A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTTA glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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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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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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