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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• 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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• 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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• As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

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  Fate, Long, Permit

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

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  Littles, Madness, Talent

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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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• 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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• 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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• We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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  Responsibility, Snow, Matrimony

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

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  War, Games, Sides

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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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• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

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  Love, Best Friend, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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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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• 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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• Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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  Haste, Leisure, Repent

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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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  Inspirational, Success, Your Side

  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.84, e-artnow

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

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  Awake At Night, Mind, Desire

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• I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

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  Fighting, World, Way

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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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• 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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• Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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  Art, Children, Garden

  "Periodical Criticism".

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