Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
- Walter Scott
More Quotes By Walter Scott
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth... It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance... The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade... Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is...
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