Walter Scott

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. ↗

— Walter Scott

#self-discovery #education

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! ↗

— Walter Scott

#heart #love #love

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain. ↗

— Walter Scott

#library #solitude #food

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 ↗

— Walter Scott

#life

Look back, and smile on perils past! ↗

— Walter Scott

#optimism #perils #smile #inspirational

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. ↗

— Walter Scott

#death-and-dying #pride #walter-scott #wretch #death

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

#broken #finds #heart #little #many

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

— Walter Scott

#cottage #dark #door #lake #many

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

— Walter Scott

#faithful #nail #near #placed #rusty

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

— Walter Scott

#grace #hereditary #heroic #lends #makes