Walter Scott
Quotations
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“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” -Walter Scott
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“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.” -Walter Scott
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“A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.” -Walter Scott
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“Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.” -Walter Scott
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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.” -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.” -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.” -Walter Scott
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“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.” -Walter Scott
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“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.” -Walter Scott
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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!” -Walter Scott
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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” -Walter Scott
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“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
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“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
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” -Walter Scott
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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” -Walter Scott
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“To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.” -Walter Scott
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” -Walter Scott
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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.” -Walter Scott
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” -Walter Scott
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. – Walter Scott
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott
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