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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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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