Walter Scott Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.”
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“come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last”
-- Walter ScottSource : Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion: Canto Ii. - The Convent”
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“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
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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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“We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.”
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“Look back, and smile on perils past.”
-- Walter ScottSource : Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ...”, p.339
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“He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.”
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“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”
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“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”
-- Walter ScottSource : Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott
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“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”
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“Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!”
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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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“Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!”
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“To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.”
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“Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.”
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“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?”
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“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
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“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
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“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
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“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”
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“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
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“God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.”
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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
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“I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?”
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“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
-- Walter ScottSource : Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)
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“Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.”
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“I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”
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