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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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  Haste, Leisure, Repent

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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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  Inspirational, Success, Your Side

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.84, e-artnow

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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

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  Smile, Past, Looks

  Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ...”, p.339

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• What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

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  Real, People, Mind

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.611

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• Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

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  Evil, Too Late, Midst

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• The will to do, the soul to dare..

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  Inspirational, Running, Soul

  "The Lady of the Lake" by Walter Scott, Canto I, stanza 21, 1810.

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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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  Blessed, Sleep, Night

  Sir Walter Scott (1825). “The Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley”, p.311

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• Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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  Silence, Tongue, Maidens

  Sir Walter Scott (2014). “Ivanhoe”, p.80, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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  Leadership, Educational, Learning

  Letter to J. G. Lockhart, c.16 June 1830, in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.) 'The Letters of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 11 (1936) p. 365

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• He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

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  Ladders, Firsts, Climbs

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.50

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

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  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

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  Love, Flower, Hands

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.352

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• Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

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  Stupid, Believe, Age

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.1999, e-artnow

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• Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

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  Patriotic, Country Love, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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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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  Dog, Sorry, Loss

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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

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  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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  Courage, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

  Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott

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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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  Glasses, Credit, May

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• Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

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  Courage, Virtue

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.230

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• Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

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  Revenge, Mouths, Hell

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.244

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• A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

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  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.278

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• God in his goodness sent the grapes
  To cheer both great and small;
  Little fools will drink too much
  And great fools none at all!

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  Cheer, Wine, Littles

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• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

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  Birthday, Names, Glorious Life

  Sir Walter Scott (1820). “Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality”, p.608

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• Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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  Heart, Hands, Stout

  Sir Walter Scott (1862). “The Lay of the Last Minstrel. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With All His Introductions and Notes, Various Readings, and the Editor's Notes”, p.39

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