Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
WALTER SCOTTThen hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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