To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTTGreat talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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