There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
WALTER SCOTTDiscretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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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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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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 man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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