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.
WALTER SCOTTWar is the only game in which both sides lose.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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