Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
WALTER SCOTT
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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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