Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
WALTER SCOTTLook back, and smile on perils past.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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