Walter Scott Quotes

• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

  Walter Scott

  Success, Attitude, Important

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• War is the only game in which both sides lose.

  Walter Scott

  War, Games, Sides

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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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• Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

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  Littles, Madness, Talent

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• Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

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  Courage, Virtue

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.230

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• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

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  Adversity, Presence Of Mind, Tempest

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics

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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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  Spring, Heart, Heaven

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• Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

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  Sleep, Joy

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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• In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
  In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
  In halls, in gay attire is seen;
  In hamlets, dances on the green.
  Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
  And men below, and saints above;
  For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

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  Love, Life, Peace

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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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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• The will to do, the soul to dare..

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Running, Soul

  "The Lady of the Lake" by Walter Scott, Canto I, stanza 21, 1810.

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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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• If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

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  Years, Use, Seven

  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.240

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every hour has its end.

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  Hours, Ends

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “The Surgeon's Daughter, and Castle Dangerous”, p.5

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• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

  Walter Scott

  Courage, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

  Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott

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• I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

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  Truth, Rumor, May

  Sir Walter Scott, “The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: Canto Ii.”

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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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• Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

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  Patriotic, Country Love, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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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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• Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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  Awake At Night, Mind, Desire

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• Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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  Wisdom, Children, Grace

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