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 SCOTTI cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
More 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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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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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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.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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