I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
WALTER SCOTTA Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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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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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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