I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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 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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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