"We are like the herb which flourisheth most……" — Walter Scott
"We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon"
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193 Quotes by Walter Scott
Walter Scott has 193 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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