The will to do, the soul to dare.
WALTER SCOTTWhere is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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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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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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