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.
WALTER SCOTTIt is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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