A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTTI 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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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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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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