Scottish - Novelist | August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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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.
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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.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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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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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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