All Walter Scott Quotes
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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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.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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!
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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