Blessed 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.
WALTER SCOTTSuccess or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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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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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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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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