80+ Walter Scott Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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

Break Law Myself Word
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
WALTER SCOTT

Escape Resistance
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Man Poor Religion
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT

Attitude Business Failure Success
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
WALTER SCOTT

Greatness Mad Talent
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
WALTER SCOTT

Coward Dare Fight Nation
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
WALTER SCOTT

Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
WALTER SCOTT

Fortune Happiness
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
WALTER SCOTT

Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
WALTER SCOTT

Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTT

Silence Talk
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
WALTER SCOTT

Dream Night
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
WALTER SCOTT

Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTT

Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTT

Deep Evil Late
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
WALTER SCOTT

Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
WALTER SCOTT

Life Rise Wake Up
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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!
WALTER SCOTT

Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTT

Man Myself Wake Up
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
WALTER SCOTT

Drink Greatness Habit Kind
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
WALTER SCOTT

Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
WALTER SCOTT

Friendship Myself Right Wrong
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
WALTER SCOTT

Attitude Impossible
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
WALTER SCOTT

Born Doubt Reading

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