Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
WALTER SCOTTThe happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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