Author: Walter Scott

Quotes

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- Walter Scott

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.

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

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

- Walter Scott

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!

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!

- Walter Scott

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

- Walter Scott

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

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

- Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

- Walter Scott

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

- Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

- Walter Scott

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