As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTA sinful heart makes feeble hand.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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 will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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