Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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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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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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