We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
WALTER SCOTTCredit 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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