The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
WALTER SCOTT
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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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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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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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