PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Ne'er had been read, in stor... SIR WALTER SCOTT Necessity--thou best of peacemakers,
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But, when I think of all my wrongs
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The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To ... SIR WALTER SCOTT O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
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To paint the rainbow's varying hues,
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Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
... SIR WALTER SCOTT And honeysuckle loved to crawl
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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,
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Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
... SIR WALTER SCOTT It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
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To all the sensual world proclaim,
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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 It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi... 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