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" 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

My Life

Life

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" All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. "

" Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. "

" 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

Side

You

" Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. "

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

" What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. "

" He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. "

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

" 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! "

" When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. "

" Look back, and smile on perils past. "

" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "

" How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. "

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

Walter Scott

Most

Faces

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

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

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

" To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. "

" To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. "

" 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. "

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

Walter Scott

Guide

Reason

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

" For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. "

" 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. "

" If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. "