Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
WALTER SCOTTHope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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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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