Walter Scott's Profile
Brief about Walter Scott: By info that we know Walter Scott was born at 1970-01-01. And also Walter Scott is Scottish Novelist.
Some Walter Scott's quotes. Goto "Walter Scott's quotation" section for more.To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Tags: Impossible, Seems, TimidA 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.
Tags: History, Knowledge, MayIf a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Tags: Empty, Farmer, LeavesOne 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.
Tags: Life, Mean, MenThe 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.
Tags: Between, Eyes, LifeWhat 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.
Tags: Rule, Student, UsefulHe is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Tags: Best, Greatest, PowerSuccess or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Tags: Attitude, Business, SuccessTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Tags: Mind, Poetry, WisdomMany miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Tags: Away, Dark, DoorRelated topics
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