Success - keeping your mind awake and yo... by Walter Scott | We Heart Quotes

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

Shadow

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

- Walter Scott

Wisdom Mind

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

- Walter Scott

Power

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

Eye Will

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

- Walter Scott

Perfection Life

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

- Walter Scott

Men Love

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

- Walter Scott

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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

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