Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTTWhere is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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