| 107 Famous Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
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“I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.”
Proverbs Quotes 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.”
Proverbs Quotes 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!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.”
Proverbs Quotes 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.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.”
Proverbs Quotes 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.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXIV)
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“Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.”
Growth Quotes Source: The Heart of Midlothian (ch. VIII)
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“Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.”
Strength Quotes Source: Marmion--Introduction (canto I)
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“But with the morning cool repentance came.”
Repentance Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XII)
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“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.”
Glory Quotes Source: Old Mortality (ch. XXXIV, introductory stanza), discovered in "The Bee", Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791, s
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“Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
Pity and woe! for such a mind
Is soft contemplative, and kind.”
Fancy Quotes Source: Rokeby (canto I, st. 31)
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“St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he said,
"Whose image never may depart,
Deep graven on this grateful heart,
Till memory be dead."
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St. Leon paused, as if he would
Not breathe her name in careless mood
Thus lightly to another;
Then bent his noble head, as though
To give the word the reverence due,
And gently said, "My mother!"”
Toasts Quotes Source: The Knight's Toast
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“Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.”
Work Quotes Source: Marmion (canto I, st. 28)
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“We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to
answer.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Woodstock (heading of ch. XVII)
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“Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven.”
Feeling Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto II, st. 22)
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“Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Marmion (canto IV, st. 30)
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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!”
Love of country Quotes Source: The Lay of the Last Ministrel (canto VI, st. 1)
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“Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged strand!”
Love of country Quotes Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto VI, st. 2)
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“My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.”
Love of country Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XXXIV)
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“Contentious fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.”
Results Quotes Source: Peveril of the Peak (ch. XL)
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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.”
Scripture Quotes Source: The Monastery (vol. 1, ch. XII)
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“Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd,
For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard.”
Praise Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto II, st. 24)
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