We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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