Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
WALTER SCOTTTears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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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