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«Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
autumn, blossoms, borne, vainly
«What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afterwards, centuries, contemporary, diaries, diary, document, documented, documenting, documents, invaluable, reads, student, The Contemporary, treasures
«Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
digestion, eaten, mirth
«Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
confront, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, insensible, prompt, prompter, prompting, valor
«He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Belief,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
fewest, motive power, sailor, steer
«Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.»
«It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
boldness, roused, rouses, rousing
«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.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Mankind,
Power
| Keywords:
aided, aiding, granting, guilt, mutual, mutual aid, perish
«To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
good night, pleasing, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers
«Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity
| Keywords:
bracer, tonic, tonics
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