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Danh ngôn của Walter Scott (Sứ mệnh: 3)

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.