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.
WALTER SCOTTAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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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 was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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