One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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