We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
WALTER SCOTTSome feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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