War is the only game in which both sides lose.
WALTER SCOTTOf all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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