Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
WALTER SCOTTThere never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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 like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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