All Walter Scott Quotes
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott in
Business
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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott in
Nature
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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