Walter Scott

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. ↗

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. ↗

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. ↗

— Walter Scott

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

— Walter Scott

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