Walter Scott Quotes
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
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Like the dew on the mountain,Like the foam on the river,Like the bubble on the fountain,Thou art gone, and forever!
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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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Oh for a blast of that dread horn on Fontarabian echoes borne!
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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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.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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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 honor or observation.
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O Caledonia! stern and wild,Meet nurse for a poetic child!Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,Land of the mountain and the flood!
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Sea of upturned faces.
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War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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Randolph, thy wreath has lost a rose.
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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,Go visit it by the pale moonlight.
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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For ne'erWas flattery lost on poet's ear:A simple race! they waste their toilFor the vain tribute of a smile.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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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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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.