He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Recollect 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.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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