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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
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He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
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'Tis an old tale, and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
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Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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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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Ambition is no cure for love!
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
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Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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