Walter Scott quotes - page 8

True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die It 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. (Walter Scott)
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart. View quote
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity. View quote
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden. View quote
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. View quote
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year. View quote
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven. View quote
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. View quote
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away. View quote
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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty for your active excretions are due not only to society but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others. View quote
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The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way But better had they neer been born That read to doubt or read to scorn. (Walter Scott)
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. View quote
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. View quote
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For Love will still be lord of all. View quote
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Ambition is no cure for love! View quote
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In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. View quote
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Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. View quote
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Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette. View quote
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. View quote
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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them. View quote
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'Charge, Chester, charge on, Stanley, on' Were the last words of Marmion. (Walter Scott)
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. View quote
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, 'Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore.' View quote
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The stores of history are accessible to every one, and are no more exhausted or impoverished by the hints thus borrowed from them than the fountain is drained by the water which we subtract for domestic purposes. And in reply to the sober charge of falsehood against a narrative announced positively to be fictitious, one can only answer by Prior's exclamation - 'Odzooks, must one swear to the truth of a song?' View quote
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