Treason seldom dwells with courage.
WALTER SCOTTA Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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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 Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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