Walter Scott Quotes

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

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  Success, Attitude, Important

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

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  War, Games, Sides

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

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  Littles, Madness, Talent

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

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  Evil, Too Late, Midst

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• The will to do, the soul to dare..

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  Inspirational, Running, Soul

  "The Lady of the Lake" by Walter Scott, Canto I, stanza 21, 1810.

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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

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  Smile, Past, Looks

  Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ...”, p.339

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

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  Leadership, Educational, Learning

  Letter to J. G. Lockhart, c.16 June 1830, in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.) 'The Letters of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 11 (1936) p. 365

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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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• All is possible for those who dare to die!

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  Dare, Dies

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The waverly novels”, p.507

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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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• Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

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  Purpose, Amusement, May

  Sir Walter Scott (1841). “Novels of Ernest Theodore Hoffman. The omen. Hajji Baba in England. Tales of my landlord Thornton's Sporting tour. Two cookery books. Johnes' translation of Froissart. Miseries of human life. Carr's Caledonian sketches. Lady Suffolk's correspondence. Kirkton's Church history. Life and works of John Home. The Culloden papers. Pepys' Memoirs”, p.54

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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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• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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  Courage, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

  Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott

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• Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

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  Law, Broken, Commandments

  Walter Scott (2015). “Ivanhoe: the History Focus”, p.233, 谷月社

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• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.82

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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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• One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

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  Years, Two, Behavior

  Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”

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• When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

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  Inspiration, Men, Reason

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• There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

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  Southern, Fine Words, Parsnips

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe”, p.229

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