The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
WALTER SCOTTWho, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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