Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

British writer and poet

Alive from: 1771-1832

Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)

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  Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

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  Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

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  Look back, and smile on perils past.

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  'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.

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  A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

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  A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

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  Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

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  All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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  Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

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  But with morning cool repentance came.

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  Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

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  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.

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  Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

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  Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

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  Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.