Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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