Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTTOne or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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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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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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