Fortune may raise up or abuse ...

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
 Walter Scott

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
 Walter Scott
Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?
 Walter Scott
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
 Walter Scott
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
 Walter Scott
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
 Walter Scott