Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
WALTER SCOTTCaution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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