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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a year, just to keep the others on their good behavior  (Walter Scott Quotes) 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?  (Walter Scott Quotes) And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers  (Walter Scott Quotes) And my father! Oh, my father! Evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!  (Walter Scott Quotes) Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!  (Walter Scott Quotes) The abstract idea of a spirit certainly implies that it has neither substance, form, shape, voice, or anything which can render its presence visible or sensible to human faculties  (Walter Scott Quotes) There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time  (Walter Scott Quotes) Oh, many a shaft at random sent finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken may soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!  (Walter Scott Quotes) She felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious prejudice permitted her to aspire to  (Walter Scott Quotes) I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again  (Walter Scott Quotes) I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake  (Walter Scott Quotes) In the wide pile, by others heeded not, hers was one sacred solitary spot, whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain for moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain  (Walter Scott Quotes) To all the sensual world proclaim, one crowded hour of glorious life, is worth an age without a name  (Walter Scott Quotes) I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice  (Walter Scott Quotes) No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it  (Walter Scott Quotes) How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!  (Walter Scott Quotes) Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility  (Walter Scott Quotes) Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it  (Walter Scott Quotes) But he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong in justifying it  (Walter Scott Quotes) The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs  (Walter Scott Quotes) He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears  (Walter Scott Quotes) Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?  (Walter Scott Quotes) The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt  (Walter Scott Quotes) All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education  (Walter Scott Quotes) Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!  (Walter Scott Quotes) Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette  (Walter Scott Quotes) In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer  (Walter Scott Quotes) Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control  (Walter Scott Quotes) 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 Scott Quotes) 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  (Walter Scott Quotes)
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