There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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