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Sir Walter Scott Quotes

«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum»
«Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.»
«When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.»
«A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.»
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.»
«There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.»
«Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown»
«Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.»
«It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent»
«If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over»

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