Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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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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