The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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