Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTTBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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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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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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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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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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