walter-scott Quotes About hours

Book:The Surgeon's Daughter, and Castle Dangerous

Source: The Surgeon's Daughter, and Castle Dangerous

“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.”

Men Years Mean Whole Action Water Hours Existence Risk Honor Filled Noble Stealing Observation Glorious Participation Crowded One Hour Observance Marshes Sluggish Decorum Whole Year

Book:the bride of Lammermoor

Source: the bride of Lammermoor

“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.”

Firsts Ideas Eye Hours Half Exercise Tasks Wake Up Invention Rising Waking Half Hours

Book: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

Source: 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

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

Age Life Is Names Hours Fame Dancing Reputation Sensual Glorious Birthday Crowded 30th Birthday Glorious Life

Book:Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality

Source: Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality

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

Ifs Inspirational Success Turns Sides Hours Ought Discipline Self Discipline Turn-on Your Side Bolts

Book: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

Source: 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

“O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!”

Made Hard Light Pain Hours Please Angel Ease Shade Uncertain Anguish Brows Variables Aspens

Author:Walter Scott

“When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.”

Way Friendship Hours Friends Clouds Instant Showers True Friend Closing Friends Forever Adverse Sunbeams Dark Clouds

Author:Walter Scott

“Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.”

Hours Serious Ambition Toys Lighters Serious Business

Book:Ivanhoe: a romance

Source: Ivanhoe: a romance

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