A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTTHeap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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