One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
WALTER SCOTTThe man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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