Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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