Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
WALTER SCOTTSuccess or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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