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Walter Scott is a stunt performer and an actor.

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

– Walter Scott

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

– Walter Scott

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

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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!

– Walter Scott

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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!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!

– Walter Scott

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But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.

– Walter Scott

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

– Walter Scott

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

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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

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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.

– Walter Scott

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There is a problem in terms of having HR do the investigation. The reputation of the company is very essential.

– Walter Scott

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

In my heart, I will find the peace to forgive Michael Slager, but at this present time, until my family can see justice, no, there's no forgiveness.

– Walter Scott

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The reports failed to recognize the unique characteristics of what DigitalGlobe provides for the U.S. government that are so far outside of what any of the emerging constellations are capable of. It's ignoring the details.

– Walter Scott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Industrials

It's very, very hard, I think, for white people, any white people, to understand just what that loss of a precious life does to the constant state of random vulnerability that Americans of color feel.

– Walter Scott

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics