A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTTFortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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