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Walter Scott [1771-1832] Scottish

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Didactism, Freemasons, History, Romanticism, Tory

Walter Scott was an English classical scholar, professor of classics at the University of Sydney and McGill University, Montreal.
Scott was born in Newton Tracey, Devon, England, third son of George Erving Scott and his wife Agnes, née Ward.

Men, Success, Attitude, Wisdom, Age, Beauty, Business, Chance, Dreams, Education, Failure, History, Knowledge, Moving On, Nature, New Year's, Parenting, Poetry, Power, Religion, Smile, Strength, Time, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.	Attitude, Success	101
Look back, and smile on perils past.	Smile	102
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!	Wisdom	103
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.		104
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.	Men	105
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.	Success	106
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.		107
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.	Attitude, Business, Failure, Success	108
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.	Truth	109
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.	History, Knowledge	110
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.	Age, New Year's, Time	111
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.	Chance, Men	112
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.	Poetry, Wisdom	113
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.		114
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.	Dreams	115
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.	Nature	116
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.		117
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.		118
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.		119
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.	Beauty	120
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.	Power	121
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.		122
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.		123
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.		124
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.		125
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.	Strength	126
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.	Education, Men	201
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.	Religion	202
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!	Moving On	203
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.	Parenting	204
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.		205
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.		206
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.		207
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.		208

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