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Walter Scott
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"Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Success
"It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Strength
"Look back, and smile on perils past."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Smile
"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."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Power
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Religion
"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Nature
"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."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
History
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Education
"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
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Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Dreams
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