I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
WALTER SCOTT
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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