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

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

- Walter Scott

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

- Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

- 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

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

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

- Walter Scott

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