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.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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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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