Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
WALTER SCOTTMany of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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