Walter Scott Quotes

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• Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

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  Evil, Too Late, Midst

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• If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

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  Years, Use, Seven

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.240

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• Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

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  Art, Eye, Hands

  'The Bride of Lammermoor' (1819) ch. 2

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• Every hour has its end.

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  Hours, Ends

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “The Surgeon's Daughter, and Castle Dangerous”, p.5

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• Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

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  Faith, Writing, Character

  Sir Walter Scott (1857). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.303

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• I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

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  Truth, Rumor, May

  Sir Walter Scott, “The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: Canto Ii.”

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• Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

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  Spring, Heart, Heaven

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• True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

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  Men, Heaven, Given

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.345

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• Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

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  Adversity

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.56, e-artnow

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• The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

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  Friendship, Doe, Attrition

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.78, e-artnow

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• Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

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  Men, May, Donkey

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• Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

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  Heaven, Bullets, Knows

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.718

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• come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

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  Death, Lasts

  Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion: Canto Ii. - The Convent”

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• Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

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  Littles, Madness, Talent

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• Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

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  Sleep, Joy

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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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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  Patriotic, Country Love, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• War is the only game in which both sides lose.

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  War, Games, Sides

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• A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

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  Heart, Humble, Character

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• Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

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  Courage, Virtue

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.230

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• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

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  Success, Attitude, Important

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• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

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  Adversity, Presence Of Mind, Tempest

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics

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• When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Clouds

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• Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

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  Rain, Flower, Adversity

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

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  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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