Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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