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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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