80+ Walter Scott Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
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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Joy Nature Religious
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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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Rise Yourself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
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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Deal Goodness Love
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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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Breathe Deep Repair
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
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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Mindset People Reality Strange
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

Walter Scott Quotes

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