To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTTWelcome as the flowers in May.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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 sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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