44 Quotations by Sir Walter Scott
- 21. Look back, and smile at perils past.
- 22. O! many a shaft, at random sent,
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- 23. O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
- 24. Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
- 25. Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
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- 26. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh ...
- 27. Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it
- 28. Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
- 29. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor ...
- 30. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor ...
- 31. Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues her ...
- 32. The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
- 33. The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
- 34. The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he ...
- 35. The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
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- 36. The will to do, the soul to dare.
- 37. The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in ...
- 38. There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger ...
- 39. To all, to each, a fair good night,
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- 40. To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man ...
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