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Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
Born: Aug 15, 1771
Died: Sep 21, 1832
First He Life Men Most Will
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Walter Scott
First Weave Web Practise Tangled Deceive
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. Walter Scott
Build Melt Out Statues See Weep Snow Them
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
Success Attitude Failure Business Mental Mental Attitude More Caused Than Capacities Even
Look back, and smile on perils past. Walter Scott
Smile Past Back Look Perils
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott
Wisdom Grace Mind Heroic Virtues Poetry Opens Makes Children Lends Teach Your Hereditary
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. Walter Scott
New Year's Time Age Year Cheer Fittest Deemed Each
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Walter Scott
Charmed Faces Most Escape Us
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott
Truth Will Faithful Wreck Rusty Nail Placed Sway Compass Near
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Walter Scott
Nature You Fruit Will Spring Autumn Tree Unless Borne Look Blossoms
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
Knowledge History Mechanic Lawyer Possesses Some Architect He Mere Mason Venture Call Himself Without May Literature Working
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
Moving On Broken Heart Word Random Mark Wound Finds Shaft Spoken Soothe May Little Sent Meant Many
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. Walter Scott
Life Risks Worth Honor Men Glorious Action Waters Those Marsh Sluggish Steal Crowded Through Observation Noble Hour Like Without Years Existence Either Which Mean Decorum Full Whole Filled Paltry Chance
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Walter Scott
Love Love Is Men Rules Above Court Saints Camp Heaven Grove Below
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. Walter Scott
Education Worth Men Own Out Had Hand Chief Anything Turned Who
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Walter Scott
Life Guide Perfection Discretion Duties Us Reason
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. Walter Scott
Guilt Power Aid Other We Cannot Would Mutual No-One Perish Without Exist Cease Did Refuse Cannot Race Mankind Ask Help Who Therefore Each Right Need
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. Walter Scott
Life Me Eyes My Life Invention First Half All My Life Rising Between Opened Hour Ideas Exercising Always Proved Waking Task Any Which Desired
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. Walter Scott
Impossible Everything Seems Because Timid
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. Walter Scott
You Side Ought Once Rise Over Hour Up After Which Turn Turn-On Your Bolt
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
Religion Matters Doubt Those Easier Finds Examine Well Vulgar Historical Than Which

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