Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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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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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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