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Sir Walter Scott Quotes

«Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Discretion | Keywords: discretion, duties, Duties of
«I like a Highland friend who will stand by me, not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: by me, highland, stand by
«All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: The Chief, turned out
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: bends, calamities, elasticity, escapes, frivolous, loftier, oak, presence of mind, recover, resists, tempest, tempests, The Tempest, The Willows, willow, willows
«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.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: architect, lawyer, Mason, masons, mechanic, possesses, venture
«Look back, and smile on perils past.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: look back, perils
«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!»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: Archer, at random, break wind, random, shaft, shafting, shafts, soothe, The Archer, The Archers
«Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
«Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: morbid, privileges
«Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: absurd, checks, ridicule, smothered, smothering, smothers
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