Walter Scott - Men Quotes

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In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

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It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.

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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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But search the land of living men,
Where wilt thou find their like again?

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Where, where was Roderick then!
One blast upon his bugle-horn
Were worth a thousand men.

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But woe awaits a country when
She sees the tears of bearded men.

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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.

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Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,
And count their youthful follies o'er,
Till Memory lends her light no more.

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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The stubborn spear-men still made good
Their dark impenetrable wood,
Each stepping where his comrade stood,
The instant that he fell.

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

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

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Civil war is a species of misery which introduces men to strange bedfellows.

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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,
Come saddle your horses, and call up your men;
Come open the West Port, and let me gang free,
And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

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