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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
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
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
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