A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
WALTER SCOTTReal valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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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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