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Sir Walter Scott

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
— Sir Walter Scott adversity
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
— Sir Walter Scott gratitude
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— Sir Walter Scott home
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
— Sir Walter Scott death
Deaththe last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
— Sir Walter Scott death
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
— Sir Walter Scott education
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
— Sir Walter Scott practice
Each age has deemed the new-born yearThe fittest time for festal cheer.
— Sir Walter Scott time
O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
— Sir Walter Scott
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
— Sir Walter Scott art
Is death the last sleep? No - it is the last and final awakening.
— Sir Walter Scott death
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
— Sir Walter Scott death
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare oer.
— Sir Walter Scott war
To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
— Sir Walter Scott dreams
Just at the age twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth
— Sir Walter Scott truth
Vengeance, deep-brooding oer the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow
— Sir Walter Scott sin
Court not the critics smile nor dread his frown
— Sir Walter Scott smile
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum
— Sir Walter Scott life
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, Well keep our Christmas merry still.
— Sir Walter Scott christ
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
— Sir Walter Scott power
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
— Sir Walter Scott success
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
— Sir Walter Scott life
Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
— Sir Walter Scott war
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet
— Sir Walter Scott time
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
— Sir Walter Scott death
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
— Sir Walter Scott power
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude more than by mental capacities.
— Sir Walter Scott success
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
— Sir Walter Scott life

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