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Letter "S" » 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.»
«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.»
«Look back, and smile on perils past.»
«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.»
«Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our 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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