A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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 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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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