Scottish - Novelist | August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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