The will to do, the soul to dare.
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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