Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTTreason seldom dwells with courage.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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