Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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