Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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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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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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