Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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 sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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