Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
WALTER SCOTTThe misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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