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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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A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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.
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Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
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Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?
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Lambe them, lads! lambe them! a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
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