Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTTSteady of heart and stout of hand.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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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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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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