Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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