There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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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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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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