Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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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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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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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