A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
WALTER SCOTTI cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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