War is the only game in which both sides lose.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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