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Quote by Walter Scott
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

To always be 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. – Walter Scott

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Carpe Diem
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Walter Scott
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott

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Dreams
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Walter Scott
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. – Walter Scott

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Attitude
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you dont tell him the truth. Others wont do it. – Donald Rumsfeld

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Im someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if Im empowered with the truth, Im not going to shut up. – Scott Ritter

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Theres no truth anymore. – Johnny Depp

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Truth

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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If youre happy, if youre feeling good, then nothing else matters. – Robin Wright Penn

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

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The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. – Franz Alexander

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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other mens weaknesses. – Henry Ward Beecher

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