It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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 will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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