Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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