Sir Walter Scott
Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.
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O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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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!
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Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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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!
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O! 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.
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