Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTTGreatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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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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