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Results of search for Author: Sir Walter Scott - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 13 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), misquoting Sir Walter Scott
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
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To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion (1808)
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

The will to do, the soul to dare.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

Results from Poor Man's College:

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion

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Results of search for Author: Sir Walter Scott - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 13 total quotations found.

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