The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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