Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTT
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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