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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
-Sir Walter Scott
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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!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!
-Sir Walter Scott
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Adversity
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Age
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
-Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality. Chap. xxxiv.
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Ambition
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Bravery
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
-Sir Walter Scott
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Charisma
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Credit
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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.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Death
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Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Determination
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Discipline
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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.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Drinking
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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Education
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Excellence
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Face, Faces
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The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Forgiveness
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But with morning cool repentance came.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Friends
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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Help
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Holidays
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'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Honesty
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
-Sir Walter Scott, Marmion
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Books by and about Sir Walter Scott