Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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