I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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