Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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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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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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