Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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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.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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