Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTTOne crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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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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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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