It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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 have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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