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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities (Walter Scott Quotes)
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary (Walter Scott Quotes)
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine (Walter Scott Quotes)
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn (Walter Scott Quotes)
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, he that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit (Walter Scott Quotes)
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors (Walter Scott Quotes)
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once (Walter Scott Quotes)
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love (Walter Scott Quotes)
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it (Walter Scott Quotes)
Time will rust the sharpest sword, time will consume the strongest cord; that which molders hemp and steel, mortal arm and nerve must feel (Walter Scott Quotes)
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 (Walter Scott Quotes)
The way was long, the wind was cold, the minstrel was infirm and old; his withered cheek, and tresses gray, seemed to have known a better day (Walter Scott Quotes)
That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and Earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? (Walter Scott Quotes)
She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye (Walter Scott Quotes)
Heap on more wood! The wind is chill; but let it whistle as it will, we'll keep our Christmas merry still (Walter Scott Quotes)
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; dream of battled fields no more, days of danger, nights of waking (Walter Scott Quotes)
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and forever! (Walter Scott Quotes)
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears (Walter Scott Quotes)
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours - ambition is the serious business of life (Walter Scott Quotes)
Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish (Walter Scott Quotes)
There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed - but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it (Walter Scott Quotes)
To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed (Walter Scott Quotes)
What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? (Walter Scott Quotes)
We often praise the evening clouds, and tints so gay and bold, but seldom think upon our God, who tinged these clouds with gold (Walter Scott Quotes)
That sounds like nonsense, my dear. May be so, my dear: but it may be very good law for all that (Walter Scott Quotes)
The criminals came in so fast that they were fain to execute them first and afterwards try them at leisure (Walter Scott Quotes)
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone (Walter Scott Quotes)
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 (Walter Scott Quotes)
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self denial (Walter Scott Quotes)
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart (Walter Scott Quotes)