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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Walter Scott
Success
Desire
Mind
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott
Thinking
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
Snow
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott
Autumn
Spring
Will
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott
Power
Motive
Obstacles
Wind
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.
Walter Scott
History
Knowledge
Literature
May
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
Truth
Will
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott
Education
Men
Worth
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
Life
Discretion
Perfection
Reason
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
Age
Time
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
Wisdom
Poetry
Children
Grace
Mind
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott
Success
Attitude
Ability
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott
Virtue
Glory
Honor
Perfection
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott
Right
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott
Actors