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.
WALTER SCOTTIf you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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