Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTTSteady of heart and stout of hand.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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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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