| 107 Famous Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
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“Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.”
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“Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.”
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“Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow”
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“You whirled them to the back of beyont.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Antiquary
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“Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Bridal of Triermain (canto I, st. 21)
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“There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Fortunes of Nigel (ch. 35)
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“Time rolls his ceaseless course.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 1)
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“The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto IV)
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“The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto IV)
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“Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Lay of the Last Ministrel (canto VI, st. 1)
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“In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Lord of the Isles (canto I, st. 20)
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“Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Marmion (canto I, st. 28)
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“With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Marmion (canto V, st. 12)
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“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Marmion (canto VI, st. 17)
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“Scared out of his seven senses.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“As many servants so many enemies.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked
brother.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested
destroys its chance of revenge.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Sir Walter Scott Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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