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
time character light
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.
spring heart heaven
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
vanity sorrow arguing
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
spring celestial sensibility
Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
love flower hands
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
hours ends
Every hour has its end.
courage virtue
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
heart hands
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
pain pleasure share
Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.
haste leisure repent
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
soldier too-much sovereign
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
seven-years use ifs
If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
fate long permit
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
dare dies
All is possible for those who dare to die!