Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
WALTER SCOTTWill future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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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 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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