I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
WALTER SCOTTCrystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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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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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