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Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

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Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering Quotes

“In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.”

“It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.”

“The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.”

“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.”

“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.”

“Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.”

“A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.”

“A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.”