Walter Scott

Walter Scott

"O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!"
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"O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!"
Walter Scott
"Welcome as the flowers in May."
Walter Scott
"Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star."
Walter Scott
"To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light."
Walter Scott
"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!"
Walter Scott
"I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me."
Walter Scott
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!"
Walter Scott
"To all to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light."
Walter Scott
"And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears."
Walter Scott
"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."
Walter Scott
"To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so."
Walter Scott
"The sickening pang of hope deferr'd."
Walter Scott
"One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."
Walter Scott
"Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening."
Walter Scott
"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
Walter Scott
"Cutting honest throats by whispers."
Walter Scott
"He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round."
Walter Scott
"Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!"
Walter Scott
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive."
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"But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out."
Walter Scott
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