Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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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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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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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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