He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
WALTER SCOTTCaution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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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.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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