The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
WALTER SCOTTHurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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