Walter Scott

Walter Scott

"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
53 Quotes
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
Walter Scott
"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."
Walter Scott
"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."
Walter Scott
"Look back, and smile on perils past."
Walter Scott
"Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
Walter Scott
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
Walter Scott
"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."
Walter Scott
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
Walter Scott
"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."
Walter Scott
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Walter Scott
"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."
Walter Scott
"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."
Walter Scott
"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."
Walter Scott
"It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty."
Walter Scott
"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!"
Walter Scott
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
Walter Scott
"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."
Walter Scott
"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
Walter Scott
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."
Walter Scott
"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."
Walter Scott
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