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.
WALTER SCOTTA sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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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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