All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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