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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.


Sir Walter Scott

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SIR WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a not a fear of death but rather a fear of ending life unfulfilled.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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