Walter Scott Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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  Haste, Leisure, Repent

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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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• The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

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  Love, Flower, Hands

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.352

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

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  Evil, Too Late, Midst

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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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• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

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  Country, Names, Feet

  Walter Scott (1995). “Rob Roy”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

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  Stupid, Believe, Age

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.1999, e-artnow

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• Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

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  Drinking, Greatness, Kind

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• I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

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  Dog, Short Life, Loss

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

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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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• Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

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  Blessed, Sleep, Night

  Sir Walter Scott (1825). “The Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley”, p.311

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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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• Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

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  Cat, Mind, Mysterious

  "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: Newstead Abbey; Abbotsford".

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• Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

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  Horse, Men, Rooms

  'The Doom of Devorgoil' (1830) act 2, sc. 2 'Bonny Dundee'.

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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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• What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

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  Real, People, Mind

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.611

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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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• The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

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  Dog, Sorry, Loss

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