Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.


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SIR WALTER SCOTT
To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the weste...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bow...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
And come he slow, or come he fast,
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I am enamoured of my journal
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
SIR WALTER SCOTT
True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Scared out of his seven senses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He who profits by a crime, commits it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
SIR WALTER SCOTT