One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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