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Walter Scott quotes: I'll dream no moreby mainly mindNot even in sleep is well resigned.My midnight orisons said o'er,I'll turn to rest and dream no more. I'll dream no more
by mainly mind
Not even in sleep is well resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest and dream no more.
Walter Scott quotes: Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
Walter Scott quotes: There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time. There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.
Walter Scott quotes: As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The
Walter Scott quotes: November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
Walter Scott quotes: Still are the thoughts to memory dear. Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
Walter Scott quotes: Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch. Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
Walter Scott quotes: What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
Walter Scott quotes: The will to do, the soul to dare. The will to do, the soul to dare.
Walter Scott quotes: Sensibility is nature's celestial spring. Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
Walter Scott quotes: A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year. A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
Walter Scott quotes: Volume I Chapter I Introductory Volume I Chapter I Introductory
Walter Scott quotes: By profession an observer of tones and gestures, By profession an observer of tones and gestures,
Walter Scott quotes: Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott quotes: "Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. "Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
Walter Scott quotes: But with morning cool repentance came. But with morning cool repentance came.
Walter Scott quotes: Mellow nuts have the hardest rind. Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
Walter Scott quotes: Fair play is a jewel. Fair play is a jewel.
Walter Scott quotes: Every hour has its end. Every hour has its end.
Walter Scott quotes: Welcome as the flowers in May. Welcome as the flowers in May.
Walter Scott quotes: Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott quotes: Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion. Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.
Walter Scott quotes: Steady of heart and stout of hand. Steady of heart and stout of hand.
Walter Scott quotes: Give me an honest laugher. Give me an honest laugher.
Walter Scott quotes: Come one, come all! this rock shall flyFrom its firm base, as soon as I. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base, as soon as I.
Walter Scott quotes: If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott quotes: It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott quotes: Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers. Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
Walter Scott quotes: Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
Walter Scott quotes: The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play. The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
Walter Scott quotes: God will raise me up a champion."~ Rebecca (Ivanhoe) God will raise me up a champion."
~ Rebecca (Ivanhoe)
Walter Scott quotes: Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Walter Scott quotes: It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it. It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
Walter Scott quotes: Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott quotes: I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world. I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
Walter Scott quotes: The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
Walter Scott quotes: The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself. The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
Walter Scott quotes: He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott quotes: Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
Walter Scott quotes: Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
Walter Scott quotes: Each must drainHis share of pleasure, share of pain. Each must drain
His share of pleasure, share of pain.
Walter Scott quotes: It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle. It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
Walter Scott quotes: Hail to the chief in triumph advances. Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
Walter Scott quotes: I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
Walter Scott quotes: Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
Walter Scott quotes: The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
Walter Scott quotes: We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer. We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
Walter Scott quotes: Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.
Walter Scott quotes: Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need. Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
Walter Scott quotes: All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott quotes: Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
Walter Scott quotes: For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Walter Scott quotes: There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Walter Scott quotes: Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever! Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
Walter Scott quotes: Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
Walter Scott quotes: there are stratagems in law as well as war. there are stratagems in law as well as war.
Walter Scott quotes: We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us. We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
Walter Scott quotes: Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
Walter Scott quotes: Ambition is no cure for love! Ambition is no cure for love!
Walter Scott quotes: Oh, poverty parts good company. Oh, poverty parts good company.
Walter Scott quotes: Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
Walter Scott quotes: When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
Walter Scott quotes: Hunger and fear are excellent casuists. Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.
Walter Scott quotes: Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Walter Scott quotes: He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
Walter Scott quotes: Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle? Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?
Walter Scott quotes: Love, to her ear, was but a name,Combin'd with vanity and shame;Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were allBounded within the cloister wall. Love, to her ear, was but a name,
Combin'd with vanity and shame;
Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all
Bounded within the cloister wall.
Walter Scott quotes: The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
Walter Scott quotes: In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
Walter Scott quotes: A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past. A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
Walter Scott quotes: Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Walter Scott quotes: Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.
Walter Scott quotes: Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
Walter Scott quotes: A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott quotes: He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott quotes: Treason seldom dwells with courage. Treason seldom dwells with courage.
Walter Scott quotes: Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking. Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Walter Scott quotes: As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
Walter Scott quotes: Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed! Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
Walter Scott quotes: Mystery has great charms for womanhood. Mystery has great charms for womanhood.
Walter Scott quotes: Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing
Walter Scott quotes: Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Walter Scott quotes: It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature. It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.
Walter Scott quotes: Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period. Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.
Walter Scott quotes: Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
Walter Scott quotes: If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen. If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.
Walter Scott quotes: Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott quotes: In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
Walter Scott quotes: Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags. Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
Walter Scott quotes: Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust. Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
Walter Scott quotes: Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
Walter Scott quotes: Necessitythou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. Necessity
thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
Walter Scott quotes: He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
Walter Scott quotes: The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Walter Scott quotes: 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 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.
Walter Scott quotes: To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Walter Scott quotes: Some touch of Nature's genial glow. Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
Walter Scott quotes: What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities. What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
Walter Scott quotes: Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Walter Scott quotes: He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

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