One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
WALTER SCOTTIt is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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