Walter Scott quotes - page 5

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish. (Walter Scott)
Oh, poverty parts good company. View quote
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Fat, fair, and forty. View quote
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Widowed wife and wedded maid. View quote
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Sea of upturned faces. View quote
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. View quote
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. View quote
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. View quote
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And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace Of finer form or lovelier face. View quote
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A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew. View quote
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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. (Walter Scott)
My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all. View quote
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O fading honours of the dead O high ambition, lowly laid. View quote
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There 's a gude time coming. View quote
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Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. View quote
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No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay. View quote
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When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield. View quote
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The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monams rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartneys hazel shade. View quote
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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. View quote
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She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. View quote
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when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon. (Walter Scott)
The Baron of Bradwardine being asked what he thought of these recruits, [...] answered drily, 'that he could not but have an excellent opinion of them, since they resembled precisely the followers who attached themselves to the good King David at the cave of Adullam, vidilicet, every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, which the Vulgate renders bitter of soul. View quote
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Norman saw on English oak. On English neck a Norman yoke; Norman spoon to English dish, And England ruled as Normans wish; Blithe world in England never will be more, Till England's rid of all the four. View quote
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So shall he strive, in changeful hue, Field, feast, and combat, to renew, And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee, And all the pomp of chivalry. View quote
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What remains?" cried Ivanhoe; "Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name. View quote
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