The will to do, the soul to dare.
WALTER SCOTTThere never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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