90 ordspråk av Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott föddes den August 15th 1771 och dog den 21 September 1832
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 Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation. |
| Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. |
| Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit |
| Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. |
| Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. |
| Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. |
| Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. |
| Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. |
| That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away. |
| The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor |
| The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The will to do, the soul to dare. |
| The will to do, the soul to dare. |
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