Scottish - Novelist | August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
TruthCompassWillFaithfulNail
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
ImpossibleEverythingSeemsBecause
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.
LifeMenRisksActionChanceHonor
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.
FatherParentingManShadowChild
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
EducationMenWorthHandAnything
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
LoveMenLove IsRulesHeavenAbove
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
TreeFruitTallRightPrevailSuit
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
YouRiseOverTurnUpSide
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
AloneThinkingFeelGoneOurselves
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
WisdomChildrenPoetryMindGrace
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