A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
WALTER SCOTTTo all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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