Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired


Sir Walter Scott

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Once a glass is broken and somehow repaired, it can't be called new.
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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
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Drink not the third glass which thou canst not tame / When once it is within thee.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?
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But with the morning cool repentance came.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
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Scared out of his seven senses.
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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He makes a great row but does nothing.
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
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Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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You whirled them to the back of beyont.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A gi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind
SIR WALTER SCOTT
A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile
SIR WALTER SCOTT
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, th...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
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.
WALTER SCOTT