Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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