Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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 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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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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