For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
WALTER SCOTTOne or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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