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.
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