Walter Scott Quotes

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• Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
• War is the only game in which both sides lose.
• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of…
• Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
• Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the…
• Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
• Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
• For love is heaven and heaven is love.
• Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
• God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
• I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.
• Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
• A mother's pride, a father's joy.
• I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
• Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
• Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
• Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
• Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

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