The will to do, the soul to dare.
WALTER SCOTTHeap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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