Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
WALTER SCOTTLove rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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