As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTThe will to do, the soul to dare.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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