And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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