The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
WALTER SCOTTTo the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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