Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
WALTER SCOTTMany of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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