Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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