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Love, to her ear, was but a name, combin'd with vanity and shame; her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all bounded within the cloister wall (Walter Scott Quotes)
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has planted (Walter Scott Quotes)
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen (Walter Scott Quotes)
Vengeance to God alone belongs; but, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! (Walter Scott Quotes)
There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self denial (Walter Scott Quotes)
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in this vale of pain, that dazzle as they fade (Walter Scott Quotes)
O mother, mother, what is bliss? O mother, what is bale? Without my William what were heaven, or with him what were hell? (Walter Scott Quotes)
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt (Walter Scott Quotes)
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault (Walter Scott Quotes)
Few have been in my secret while I was compiling these narratives, nor is it probable that they will ever become public during the life of their author (Walter Scott Quotes)
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! (Walter Scott Quotes)
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none (Walter Scott Quotes)
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, the vanities of life forego, and count their youthful follies o'er, till memory lends her light no more (Walter Scott Quotes)
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities (Walter Scott Quotes)
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut throat at your elbow (Walter Scott Quotes)
The man, whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than himself (Walter Scott Quotes)
Merrily, merrily goes the bark on a breeze from the northward free, so shoots through the morning sky the lark, or the swan through the summer sea (Walter Scott Quotes)
Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling (Walter Scott Quotes)
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! (Walter Scott Quotes)
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to all the world besides (Walter Scott Quotes)
Warriors! - and where are warriors found, if not on martial Britain's ground? and who, when waked with note of fire, love more than they the British lyre? (Walter Scott Quotes)
Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, when man to judgment wakes front clay, be Thou, o Christ, the sinner's stay, though heaven and Earth shall pass away (Walter Scott Quotes)
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 (Walter Scott Quotes)
Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee; I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be (Walter Scott Quotes)
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent (Walter Scott Quotes)
Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown (Walter Scott Quotes)
Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause Its source one tyrant passion draws, till mastering all within (Walter Scott Quotes)
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces (Walter Scott Quotes)
We hold our greyhound in our hand, our falcon on our glove; but where shall we find leash, or band, for dame that loves to rove? (Walter Scott Quotes)
Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, fever'd the progress of these years, yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem the recollection of a dream (Walter Scott Quotes)