One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
WALTER SCOTTAnd better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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