Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
WALTER SCOTTWelcome as the flowers in May.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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