A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTTIt is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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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.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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