“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Sketch of His Life
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“Time rolls his ceaseless course.”
Source: Beauties of Sir Walter Scott
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.”
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
“The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.”
Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
“Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.”
Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
“And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With Introductions and Notes..
“Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.”
Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc
“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”
Source: Rob Roy
“O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?”
“Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.”
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.”
Source: Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century ; The Pirate
Source: Waverley Novels: Peveril of the Peak
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
“I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.”
Source: Poetical works
“Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.”
Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
“Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.”
Source: The Waverley Novels
“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”
Source: The Waverly Novels: 26 Books in One Volume – Complete Collection: Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Waverly, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, Kenilworth, Legend of Montrose
“A mother's pride, a father's joy.”
Source: Poetical works
“Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.”
Source: Waverley Novels: The monastery
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume
Source: Redgauntlet
Source: Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes
“Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!”
Source: Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field
“When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.”
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)
“Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.”
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Source: The Talisman. Chronicles of Canongate (1st series)
“As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations