The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monams rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartneys hazel shade. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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For neer was lost on poets ear A simple race They waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear A simple race they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty for your active excretions are due not only to society but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, And forgets the obligations of gratitude. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention...It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We're going to come back the exact same way we left off -- as The Whispers. We do RB music -- lyric-conscious music that speaks to the adults. That's what The Whispers are all about. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. - Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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