Tag: Walter Scott
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
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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.
Walter Scott
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Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott
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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.
Walter Scott
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
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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.
Walter Scott