Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTTHail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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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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The 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?
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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