Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTWelcome as the flowers in May.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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