Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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