The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
WALTER SCOTTWithout courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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 the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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