Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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