One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
WALTER SCOTTIt 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Come 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!
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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