Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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