Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
WALTER SCOTTOne crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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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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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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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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