A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTTWelcome as the flowers in May.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to 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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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