Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTTBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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