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Power Quotes by Walter Scott
- A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show…
- 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…
- He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
- 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…
- Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of…
- Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of…
- For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the…
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