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"A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred."
"Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master."
"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."
"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."
"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
Explore more quotes by Walter Scott
"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."
"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."
"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
"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."
"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."
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
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