The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
WALTER SCOTTBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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