Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTTNovember’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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