Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
WALTER SCOTTA 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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 he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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