Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
WALTER SCOTTThe 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?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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 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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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