We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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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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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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