Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTTSome feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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