A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTTSome feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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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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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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