Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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