As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTSteady of heart and stout of hand.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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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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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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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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