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!
WALTER SCOTTTreason seldom dwells with courage.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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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?
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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