He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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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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