Walter Scott Quotes

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

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  War, Games, Sides

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

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  Wisdom, Children, Grace

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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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• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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  Drinking, Greatness, Alcohol

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman”, p.663, e-artnow

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• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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  Motivational, Hope, Expectations

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.210

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• Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

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  Caring, Worry, Care

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• God in his goodness sent the grapes
  To cheer both great and small;
  Little fools will drink too much
  And great fools none at all!

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  Cheer, Wine, Littles

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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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• From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

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  First Love, Snow, Twenties

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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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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

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  Sympathy, Death, Grief

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

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• He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

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  Ladders, Firsts, Climbs

  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.50

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• We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

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  Herbs

  "Ivanhoe: the History Focus".

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• Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

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  Revenge, Mouths, Hell

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.244

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• Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

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  Dog, Animal, Toil

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “The Talisman. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series)”, p.258

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• Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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  Awake At Night, Mind, Desire

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