Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTCaution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have 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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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