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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.

Walter Scott

Life

Ideas

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Walter Scott

Faces

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Walter Scott

Shadow

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Walter Scott

Eye

Will

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.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Walter Scott

Dreams

Light

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

Age