It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
WALTER SCOTTBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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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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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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