Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Sea of upturned faces.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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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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Oh for a blast of that dread horn on Fontarabian echoes borne!
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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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Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.
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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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Come one, come all! This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.
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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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Lightly from fair to fair he flew,And loved to plead, lament, and sue;Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain,For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
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War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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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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You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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Randolph, thy wreath has lost a rose.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.