Sir Walter Scott Quotes
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He makes a great row but does nothing.
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Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven.
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The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
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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 honour or observation.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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After a bad harvest sow again.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
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Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
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It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand!
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou are gone, and for ever!
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
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And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.
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With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears; The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again.
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Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
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If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.
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In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd, For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard.
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
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It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!
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Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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But with the morning cool repentance came.
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Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way: And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?
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The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
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As many servants so many enemies.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
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He who profits by a crime, commits it.
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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
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Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
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Busily engaged in doing nothing.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
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O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
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'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
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