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Sir Walter Scott

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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile at perils past.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O!, many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at rando...
SIR WALTER SCOTT When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues her...
SIR WALTER SCOTT To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger...
SIR WALTER SCOTT But with morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Then, wearied by the uncertainty and difficulties with which each scheme appeared to be attended, he...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man...
SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gamb...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall for...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
SIR WALTER SCOTT High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their sc...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?
SIR WALTER SCOTT But with the morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Do what you should, not what you may.
SIR WALTER SCOTT After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my n...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears; The...
SIR WALTER SCOTT There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SIR WALTER SCOTT For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged...
SIR WALTER SCOTT He is most powerful who governs himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Consider an enemy may become a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
SIR WALTER SCOTT As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in stor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for su...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wo...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
SIR WALTER SCOTT My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings wel...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the weste...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Art thou a friend to Roderick?
SIR WALTER SCOTT Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bow...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast,
SIR WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
SIR WALTER SCOTT The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I am enamoured of my journal
SIR WALTER SCOTT Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
SIR WALTER SCOTT True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
SIR WALTER SCOTT He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Scared out of his seven senses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who profits by a crime, commits it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He makes a great row but does nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SIR WALTER SCOTT As many servants so many enemies.
SIR WALTER SCOTT An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Time rolls his ceaseless course.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
SIR WALTER SCOTT You whirled them to the back of beyont.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth
SIR WALTER SCOTT Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
SIR WALTER SCOTT O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spok...
SIR WALTER SCOTT A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to et...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
SIR WALTER SCOTT Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A gi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or...
SIR WALTER SCOTT What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
SIR WALTER SCOTT Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over
SIR WALTER SCOTT He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round
SIR WALTER SCOTT Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
SIR WALTER SCOTT Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer
SIR WALTER SCOTT Mellow nuts have the hardest rind
SIR WALTER SCOTT A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile
SIR WALTER SCOTT If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, th...
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a not a fear of death but rather a fear of ending life unfulfilled.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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