Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
WALTER SCOTTI was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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