Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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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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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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