One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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