Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTA sinful heart makes feeble hand.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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