Author: Walter Scott

Quotes

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

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- 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

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

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

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

- Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

- Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

- Walter Scott

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

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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