Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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