“ Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity. ”
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“ Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. ”
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“ My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee. ”
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“ Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds! ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams; and slumbers light. ”
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“ To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ”
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“ O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ”
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“ Love rules the court, The camp, the grove, And men below, and the saints above, For love is heaven and heaven is love. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. ”
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