Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSEwas a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 August 1771
birthday names glorious-life
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
ability age-and-aging among both growth himself mature maturing others phases relationship understanding until unto
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
chisel finer form
And ne'er did a Grecian chisel traceA nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face.
christmas half heart oft poor
A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.
brother father four groups grown hear heyday high jazz junior listening met motown today tops
We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no different than most groups in that we wanted to be like the Miracles, the Four Tops and the Temptations. But my brother Scotty and I had grown up listening to groups like the Four Freshmen. Our father was a big jazz enthusiast, too. So what you hear today is an amalgamation of all that.
exact left music speaks whispers
We're going to come back the exact same way we left off -- as The Whispers. We do R&B music -- lyric-conscious music that speaks to the adults. That's what The Whispers are all about.
inspirational motivational attitude
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
inspirational your-side discipline
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
smile past looks
Look back, and smile on perils past.
awake-at-night mind desire
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
goodnight good-night dream
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
herbs
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
sympathy death grief
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
friendship true-friend clouds
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.