Welcome as the flowers in May.
WALTER SCOTTFor success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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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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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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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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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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