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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others,
dies in ignorance of himself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Do what you should, not what you may.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause
for sorrow has arisen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to do so.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He makes a great row but does nothing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare
yourself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He who profits by a crime, commits it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you
will never be rich.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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What skilful limner e'er would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues,
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
Topic: Rainbows
Source: Marmion (canto VI, st. 5)
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High minds, of native pride and force,
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;
Fear, for their scourge, means villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave!
Topic: Remorse
Source: Marmion (canto III, st. 13)
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But with the morning cool repentance came.
Topic: Repentance
Source: Rob Roy (ch. XII)
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Contentious fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Topic: Results
Source: Peveril of the Peak (ch. XL)
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'Tis an old tale, and often told;
But did my fate and wish agree,
Ne'er had been read, in story old,
Of maiden true betray'd for gold,
That loved, or was avenged, like me!
Topic: Revenge
Source: Marmion (canto II, st. 27)
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Vengeance to God alone belongs;
But, when I think of all my wrongs
My blood is liquid flame!
Topic: Revenge
Source: Marmion (canto Vi, st. 7)
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Marmion (canto V, st. 9)
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Topic: Rumor
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto II, st. 22)
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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,
Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band,
That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Topic: Scotland
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto VI, st. 2)
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Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch, and force the way:
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Topic: Scripture
Source: The Monastery (vol. 1, ch. XII)
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And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses.
Topic: Ships
Source: Kenilworth (ch. XXIX, introductory verses)
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With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Topic: Smiles
Source: Marmion (canto V, st. 12)
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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll,
And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly,
Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky.
Then let the good Thy mighty name revere,
And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
Topic: Storms
Source: On a Thunderstorm, written at the age of twelve, found in Lockhart's "Life of Scott", vol. I, ch. II
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Topic: Story Telling
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto II, st. 22)
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Topic: Strength
Source: Marmion--Introduction (canto I)
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The summer dawn's reflected hue
To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,
Mildly and soft the western breeze
Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,
And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,
Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
Topic: Summer
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 2)
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It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto V, st. 13)
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