The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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