Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTTWhere is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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