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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter ScottWalter Scott Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
Walter ScottWalter Scott Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
Walter ScottWalter Scott One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
Walter ScottWalter Scott Steady of heart and stout of hand.
Walter ScottWalter Scott Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
Walter ScottWalter Scott Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
Walter ScottWalter Scott The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
Walter ScottWalter Scott A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
Walter ScottWalter Scott Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter ScottWalter Scott Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Walter ScottWalter Scott Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
Walter ScottWalter Scott Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter ScottWalter Scott The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Walter ScottWalter Scott 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.
Walter ScottWalter Scott A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
Walter ScottWalter Scott
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