Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

Walter Scott

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

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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.

Walter Scott

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Look back, and smile on perils past.

Walter Scott

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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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The will to do, the soul to dare..

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Walter Scott

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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

Walter Scott

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Give me an honest laugher.

Walter Scott

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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.

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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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.

Walter Scott

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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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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.

Walter Scott

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Walter Scott

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