He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
WALTER SCOTTFortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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