Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
WALTER SCOTTMany a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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