Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTTBlessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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