One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
WALTER SCOTTWho, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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