There never did, and there never will exist any thing permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
Life
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Truth
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
Wisdom
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land?
Wisdom
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think on all my wrongs, >>My blood is liquid flame!
Wisdom