Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Quote by Walter Scott

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

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

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many...

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many...

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any...

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any...

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures,...

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures,...

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps...

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps...

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by...

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by...

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to...

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to...

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble...

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble...

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps...

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps...

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

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

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

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of...

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of...

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

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