A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
WALTER SCOTTThe happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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