Walter Scott's Quotes

Walter Scott's Quotes 18

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass will sway it from the truth and...

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are...

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Look back and smile on perils past.

There is a vulgar incredulity which in historical matters as well as in...

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot...

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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes...

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring you will vainly look for fruit on...

O! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many...

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic a mere working mason if...

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

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

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and...

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even...

For success attitude is equally as important as ability.

When thinking about companions gone we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.