Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
WALTER SCOTTFrom my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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