Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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