A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTTCome fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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