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
kings wine people
Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens
vanity and-love philanthropy
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
long folks threatened
Threatened folk live long.
heart sick delayed
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
woe scene mortals
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
courage treason
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
children childhood taught
And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
ambition men rocks
Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
drinking greatness kind
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
gay land hypocrisy
All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it; and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.
humor insanity ornaments
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
hair
For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
grief joy sorrow
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
food nuts mellow
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.