Walter Scott Quotes

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Oh for a blast of that dread horn
On Fontarabian echoes borne!

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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.

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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

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That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?

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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

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"Alas! fair Rowena," returned De Bracy, "you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him."

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There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.

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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

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A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

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The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

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And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last.

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In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.

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The valiant Knight of Triermain
Rung forth his challenge-blast again,
But answer came there none.

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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

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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.

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When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.

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Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.

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Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

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It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.

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His morning walk was beneath the elms in the churchyard; 'for death,' he said, 'had been his next-door neighbour for so many years, that he had no apology for dropping the acquaintance.'

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I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

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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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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,
Out of the land of bondage came,
Her fathers' God before her mov'd,
An awful guide in smoke and flame.

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Respect was mingled with surprise,
And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foeman worthy of their steel.

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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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Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.

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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.

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