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
cat mind mysterious
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
birthday names glorious-life
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
exact left music speaks whispers
We're going to come back the exact same way we left off -- as The Whispers. We do R&B music -- lyric-conscious music that speaks to the adults. That's what The Whispers are all about.
smile past looks
Look back, and smile on perils past.
awake-at-night mind desire
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
goodnight good-night dream
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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.
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.
success attitude important
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
glasses credit may
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
patriotic country-love men
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
rome dies
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
southern fine-words fine
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.