Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
WALTER SCOTTCredit 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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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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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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