All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTTA glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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