Sir Walter Scott
19 quotations
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Look back, and smile at perils past.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
But with morning cool repentance came.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
The will to do, the soul to dare.
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.