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In civilised society law is the chimney through which all that smoke discharges itself that used to circulate through the whole house, By Walter Scott

Love, to her ear, was but a name,Combin'd with vanity and shame;Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were allBounded within the cloister wall. By Walter Scott

And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face ... By Walter Scott

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. By Walter Scott

Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period. By Walter Scott

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. By Walter Scott

As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The By Walter Scott

As hope and fear alternate chaseOur course through life's uncertain race. By Walter Scott

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! By Walter Scott

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. By Walter Scott

Oh, poverty parts good company. By Walter Scott

And children know,Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. By Walter Scott

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. By Walter Scott

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. By Walter Scott

What!" said Bois-Guilbert, "so soon?" "Ay," replied the preceptor, "trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand. By Walter Scott

I'll dream no moreby mainly mindNot even in sleep is well resigned.My midnight orisons said o'er,I'll turn to rest and dream no more. By Walter Scott

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted. By Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year. By Walter Scott

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play. By Walter Scott

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,. By Walter Scott

The seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. By Walter Scott

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? By Walter Scott

Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion. By Walter Scott

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. By Walter Scott

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. By Walter Scott

Blud's thicker than water. By Walter Scott

Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates. By Walter Scott

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day. By Walter Scott

God of Jacob! it is the meeting of two fierce tides - the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds! By Walter Scott

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. By Walter Scott

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. By Walter Scott

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hoursambition is the serious business of life. By Walter Scott

For Love will still be lord of all. By Walter Scott

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers. By Walter Scott

Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches than of pease and pulse. By Walter Scott

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time. By Walter Scott

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. By Walter Scott

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. By Walter Scott

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. By Walter Scott

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar? By Walter Scott

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking. By Walter Scott

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. By Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. By Walter Scott

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. By Walter Scott

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. By Walter Scott

Welcome as the flowers in May. By Walter Scott

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? By Walter Scott

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. By Walter Scott

We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us. By Walter Scott

Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. By Walter Scott

Fear to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too. By Walter Scott

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star. By Walter Scott

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. By Walter Scott

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. By Walter Scott

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. By Walter Scott

I forgive you, Sir Knight," said Rowena, "as a Christian.""That means," said Wamba, "that she does not forgive him at all. By Walter Scott

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar. By Walter Scott

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar. By Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong. By Walter Scott

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! By Walter Scott

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it. By Walter Scott

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. By Walter Scott

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame. By Walter Scott

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds! By Walter Scott

Thou are boot for many a bruise, And healest many a wound; In our Lady's blessed name,I take thee from the ground. By Walter Scott

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land. By Walter Scott

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? By Walter Scott

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. By Walter Scott

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. By Walter Scott

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. By Walter Scott

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need. By Walter Scott

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity. By Walter Scott

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do. By Walter Scott

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? By Walter Scott

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice By Walter Scott

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. By Walter Scott

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. By Walter Scott

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen. By Walter Scott

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! By Walter Scott

And my father!-oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth! By Walter Scott

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. By Walter Scott

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. By Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born yearThe fittest time for festal cheer. By Walter Scott

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. By Walter Scott

Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive. By Walter Scott

Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense. By Walter Scott

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. By Walter Scott

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. By Walter Scott

Ambition is no cure for love! By Walter Scott

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. By Walter Scott

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. By Walter Scott

Some touch of Nature's genial glow. By Walter Scott

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. By Walter Scott

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. By Walter Scott

A sinful heart makes feeble hand. By Walter Scott

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. By Walter Scott

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. By Walter Scott

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain. By Walter Scott

God in his goodness sent the grapesTo cheer both great and small;Little fools will drink too muchAnd great fools none at all! By Walter Scott

The will to do, the soul to dare. By Walter Scott

There are few more melancholy sensations than those with which we regard scenes of past pleasure when altered and deserted. By Walter Scott

Necessitythou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. By Walter Scott

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. By Walter Scott

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer. By Walter Scott

there are stratagems in law as well as war. By Walter Scott

Steady of heart and stout of hand. By Walter Scott

Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages. By Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. By Walter Scott

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. By Walter Scott

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world. By Walter Scott

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again. By Walter Scott

But with morning cool repentance came. By Walter Scott

Mystery has great charms for womanhood. By Walter Scott

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue. By Walter Scott

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men. By Walter Scott

Hunger and fear are excellent casuists. By Walter Scott

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer. By Walter Scott

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it. By Walter Scott

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast! By Walter Scott

I will not slip my dog before the game's a-foot. - But, By Walter Scott

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away. By Walter Scott

Threatened folk live long. By Walter Scott

Time rolls his ceaseless course. By Walter Scott

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. By Walter Scott

God will raise me up a champion."~ Rebecca (Ivanhoe) By Walter Scott

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart. By Walter Scott

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever! By Walter Scott

Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the tyrant. By Walter Scott

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring. By Walter Scott

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. By Walter Scott

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. By Walter Scott

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never. By Walter Scott

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind. By Walter Scott

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again? By Walter Scott

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair. By Walter Scott

Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt. By Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. By Walter Scott

It was Zenocrates, not Plato, who denied that pain was an evil. By Walter Scott

Fools should not have chapping sticks'; that is, weapons of offence. By Walter Scott

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee. By Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won! By Walter Scott

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. By Walter Scott

Each must drainHis share of pleasure, share of pain. By Walter Scott

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. By Walter Scott

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle. By Walter Scott

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. By Walter Scott

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. By Walter Scott

simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well, By Walter Scott

he was too proud a man to be a vain one. By Walter Scott

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. By Walter Scott

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! By Walter Scott

See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes. By Walter Scott

Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. By Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it. By Walter Scott

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening. By Walter Scott

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. By Walter Scott

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise. By Walter Scott

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. By Walter Scott

Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing By Walter Scott

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! By Walter Scott

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. By Walter Scott

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. By Walter Scott

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips. By Walter Scott

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. By Walter Scott

Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere, here learned the fate of mortals. By Walter Scott

Fair play is a jewel. By Walter Scott

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself By Walter Scott

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. By Walter Scott

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. By Walter Scott

He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more By Walter Scott

I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee. By Walter Scott

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here ... God bless you all. By Walter Scott

The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. By Walter Scott

Come one, come all! this rock shall flyFrom its firm base, as soon as I. By Walter Scott

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself. By Walter Scott

War is the only game in which both sides lose. By Walter Scott

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last By Walter Scott

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. By Walter Scott

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. By Walter Scott

Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility. By Walter Scott

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter. By Walter Scott

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping. By Walter Scott

Thus do men throw on fate the issue of their own wild passions. By Walter Scott

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. By Walter Scott

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon By Walter Scott

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. By Walter Scott

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges By Walter Scott

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. By Walter Scott

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. By Walter Scott

cared for no rogues but their own, By Walter Scott

Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. By Walter Scott

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust. By Walter Scott

Give me an honest laugher. By Walter Scott

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! By Walter Scott

Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. By Walter Scott

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. By Walter Scott

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. By Walter Scott

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. By Walter Scott

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. By Walter Scott

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. By Walter Scott

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch. By Walter Scott

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. By Walter Scott

Treason seldom dwells with courage. By Walter Scott

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. By Walter Scott

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it. By Walter Scott

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. By Walter Scott

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. By Walter Scott

Revenge is a feast for thegods! By Walter Scott

The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs. By Walter Scott

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion. By Walter Scott

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! By Walter Scott

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. By Walter Scott

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. By Walter Scott

Chess is a sad waste of brains. By Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. By Walter Scott

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. By Walter Scott

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. By Walter Scott

Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle? By Walter Scott

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds. By Walter Scott

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. By Walter Scott

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it. By Walter Scott

It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature. By Walter Scott

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven. By Walter Scott

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past. By Walter Scott

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. By Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. By Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. By Walter Scott

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? By Walter Scott

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. By Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed! By Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet By Walter Scott

Art thou a friend to Roderick? By Walter Scott

so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream By Walter Scott

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. By Walter Scott

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. By Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags. By Walter Scott

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. By Walter Scott

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. By Walter Scott

Volume I Chapter I Introductory By Walter Scott

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths,Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth. By Walter Scott

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing. By Walter Scott

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul! By Walter Scott

Hail to the chief in triumph advances. By Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. By Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. By Walter Scott

Every hour has its end. By Walter Scott

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy. By Walter Scott

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow. By Walter Scott

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold. By Walter Scott

I was not always a man of woe. By Walter Scott

Still are the thoughts to memory dear. By Walter Scott

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. By Walter Scott

All is possible for those who dare to die! By Walter Scott

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. By Walter Scott

By profession an observer of tones and gestures, By Walter Scott

How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate! By Walter Scott

I am the very child of caprice and folly. By Walter Scott

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name By Walter Scott