Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSEwas a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 August 1771
goodnight good-night dream
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
energy purpose wonderful
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
herbs
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
sympathy death grief
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
law broken commandments
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
friendship true-friend clouds
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
halloween imagination mind
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
birthday names glorious-life
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
revenge mouths hell
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
christmas xmas cheer
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
responsibility snow matrimony
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
education teaching forgive-me
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
truth rumor may
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
life power men
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. 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.