Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTTLook back, and smile on perils past.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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 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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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