I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
WALTER SCOTTWithout courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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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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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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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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