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.
WALTER SCOTTI will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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