Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTTI 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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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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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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