One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
WALTER SCOTTMany a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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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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