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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.


Walter Scott

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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