The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
WALTER SCOTTOne or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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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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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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