Walter Scott Quotes

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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott

Smile, Past, Perils

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott

Deceive, Web, Weave

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott

Life, Age, Worth

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

Business, Success, Attitude

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

Power, Best, Greatest

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott

New Year's, Age, Time

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott

Wisdom, Poetry, Mind

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott

Snow, Build, Weep

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott

Dark, Away, Door

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Walter Scott

Escape, Faces, Charmed

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott

Attitude, Success, Important

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

History, Knowledge, May

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott

Nature, Spring, Unless

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott

Love, Men, Heaven

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

Power, Help, Cannot

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott

Men, Education, Worth

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

Moving On, Heart, May

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Walter Scott

Success, Mind, Desire

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott

Alone, Thinking, Ourselves

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott

Truth, Faithful, Compass

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

Life, Men, Mean

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott

Life, Reason, Perfection

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott

Won, Tree, Fruit

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott

After, Once, Turn

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

Strength, Energy, Wonderful

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Born: August 14, 1771

Died: September 21, 1832

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