For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
WALTER SCOTTSteady of heart and stout of hand.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have 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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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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