To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
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To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, ...
WALTER SCOTT I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
THERESE MAY This is Lilly Heaven saying good night, and to all a very good night. Good night everybody. Here's w...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES See no good, hear no good, speak no good; and the people will eventually find you good!
HUSEYN RAZA Be every mourner's sleep tonight / Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.
JOHN KEBLE Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN We targeted the Llanelli line-out and it was especially pleasing to see Scott and Ally Kellock come ...
FRANK HADDEN No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
IRISH BLESSINGS The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need t...
C. JOYBELL C. Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of ...
VITRUVIUS Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves.
JIM ARENDT Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brai...
JOANNA BAILLIE Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!/ And if upon its stillness fall/ The visions of a busy brain,/ ...
JOANNA BAILLIE If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself
JOCELYN MURRAY We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
WILLIAM DEMENT When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put ...
H.M. WARD All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Good night! Good night!
Far flies the light;
But still God's love
Shall shine above,<...
VICTOR HUGO Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his p...
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her...
FRANK L. DESILVA Wishes are possibilities. Dare to make a wish.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of ...
THOMAS PYNCHON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS After a night of bad dreams, to awaken to the sun and all the possibilities of action.
MARTY RUBIN All good things are borne from evil, just like good people. It’s very rare that someone does thing...
KEVIN REAVER No. You see, the night works differently here than in the human realm,’ he continues. ‘Duwyn is ...
GISELLE SIMLETT You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way?
AMY FELLNER DOMINY We need Walter to feel real good. I always feel good when he feels good. I'm going to be careful wit...
MIKE HOLMGREN They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs...
STEPHEN KING I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN Each night (Scott) would sit at home obsessively pouring over the script while I'm down at the bar k...
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play ...
BILL WATTERSON Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light...
MARK TWAIN It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.
JULIEN TORMA Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we...
MISHI MCCOY Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's eve...
MICHAEL GRANT, LIGHT (GONE SERIES, #6) It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. D...
HELEN HUMPHREYS I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.
AZAR NAFISI В молчании — слово,
А свет лишь во тьме.
И жизнь по...
Урсула Ле Гуин Что за смех, что за радость, когда мир постоянно горит? �...
BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI Каким бы темным и страшным не казался тебе сейчас мир, �...
GOTHAM Грех не в темноте, а в нежелании света.
Цветаева М.И. Легче зажечь одну маленькую свечу, чем клясть темноту.
Конфуций অন্ধকারে চেরাগ জ্বালানো' আর 'অন্ধের সা...
SHOBUJ TAPOSH Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ...
C. NZINGHA SMITH His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for eac...
BRIAN BECKWITH It wasn't fair to the whole county, and it wasn't even fair to each district.
JEAN GRANT If I've learned anything in my life, it's that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be di...
KERRIGAN BYRNE God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po...
LISA KLEYPAS We neither of us perform to strangers.
JANE AUSTEN Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the ...
BRANDY HEINEMAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE All night long they talk to each other and keep us up.
RALPH BERNARD What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe...
C. JOYBELL C. Everyone is looking for a miracle, when God puts in your heart the desire to pursue after your dream...
MANUEL CORAZZARI The closer you are to your dreams, the broader should be your vision.
NEHA KOTHARI If we travel in our Dreams It's Possible to Go Everywhere, But don't forget to take me with You, BeC...
JAN JANSEN I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, ...
BILL WATTERSON
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The poor man's heart through half the year.
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Hers was one sacred solitary spot,
Whose gloomy ai...
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the scenery of a fairy dream
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To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
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Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at rando...
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When first we practice to deceive!
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SIR WALTER SCOTT But with morning cool repentance came.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall for...
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SIR WALTER SCOTT We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to
answer.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT High minds, of native pride and force,
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;
Fear, for their sc...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
SIR WALTER SCOTT But with the morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Do what you should, not what you may.
SIR WALTER SCOTT After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my n...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The...
SIR WALTER SCOTT There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SIR WALTER SCOTT For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged...
SIR WALTER SCOTT He is most powerful who governs himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Consider an enemy may become a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
SIR WALTER SCOTT As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Tis an old tale, and often told;
But did my fate and wish agree,
Ne'er had been read, in stor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Necessity--thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
Pity and woe! for su...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance to God alone belongs;
But, when I think of all my wrongs
My blood is liquid flame!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wo...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of
Hamlet, the character of the Prince of...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentious fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT What skilful limner e'er would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues,
Unless to mortal it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
SIR WALTER SCOTT My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings wel...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The summer dawn's reflected hue
To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,
Mildly and soft the weste...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll,
And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Art thou a friend to Roderick?
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea,
The orange flower perfumes the bow...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
SIR WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
SIR WALTER SCOTT The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I am enamoured of my journal
SIR WALTER SCOTT Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
SIR WALTER SCOTT True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
SIR WALTER SCOTT He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Scared out of his seven senses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
...
SIR WALTER SCOTT It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT