A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
WALTER SCOTTTreason seldom dwells with courage.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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