Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
WALTER SCOTTA glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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