We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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