The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
WALTER SCOTTCaution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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