Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTTMany of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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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!
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