A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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