Sir Walter Scott - From the Art category:
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Attitude category:
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Danger category:
A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, / Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the Argosy. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Danger category:
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Drunkenness category:
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Education category:
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Efficiency category:
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Impossibilities category:
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Life category:
Vacant heart and hand, and eye – Easy live and quiet die. (Sir Walter Scott)
Sir Walter Scott - From the Truth category:
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practice to deceive! (Sir Walter Scott)
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