Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Sir Walter Scott quotes, Sir Walter Scott sayings, and Sir Walter Scott proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.Sir Walter Scott
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Look back, and smile at perils past.Sir Walter Scott
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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.Sir Walter Scott
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O, what a tangled web we weave; When first we practice to deceive!
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The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.Sir Walter Scott
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The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.Sir Walter Scott
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.Sir Walter Scott
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Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Sir Walter Scott
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O, what a tangled web we weave; When first we practice to deceive!Sir Walter Scott
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.Sir Walter Scott
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.Sir Walter Scott
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.Sir Walter Scott
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.Sir Walter Scott
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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.Sir Walter Scott
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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.Sir Walter Scott
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November’s sky is chill and drear, / November’s leaf is red and sear.Sir Walter Scott
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For ne'er was flattery lost on poet's ear; / A simple race! they waste their toil / For the vain tribute of a smile.Sir Walter Scott
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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?Sir Walter Scott
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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it—this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.Sir Walter Scott
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On Christmas eve the bells were rung; / On Christmas eve the mass was sung; / That only night in all the year, / Saw the stole priest the chalice rear.Sir Walter Scott
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Like the Highlandman's gun, she wants stock, lock, and barrel to put her into repair.Sir Walter Scott
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.Sir Walter Scott
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.Sir Walter Scott
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Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; / But let it whistle as it will, / We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Sir Walter Scott
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Death— the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.Sir Walter Scott
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Love is heaven and heaven is love.Sir Walter Scott
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Vacant heart and hand and eye, / Easy live and quiet die.Sir Walter Scott
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.Sir Walter Scott