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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

by Sir Walter Scott Found in: Navigation Quotes,
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He who profits by a crime, commits it.

He who profits by a crime, commits it.

by Sir Walter Scott Found in: General Sayings,
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

by Sir Walter Scott Found in: Deception Quotes,
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O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy read more

O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood,
Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band,
That knits me to thy rugged strand!

by Sir Walter Scott Found in: Scotland Quotes,
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Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
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Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!

by Sir Walter Scott Found in: General Sayings,
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