Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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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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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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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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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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