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From Quotes by Walter Scott
- 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…
- Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in…
- Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er…
- The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning…
- "Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked…
- Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is…
- In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
- Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth…
- I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
- See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
- Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
- Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
- From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
- Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them…
- 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 rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
- Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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