Sir walter scott

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.