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.
WALTER SCOTTWithout courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Credit 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.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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