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Walter Scott, born on August 15, 1771, and died on September 21, 1832, was a renowned British baronet. He is best known for his extensive literary works, particularly his historical novels and poetry.

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Famous Walter Scott Quotes

“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

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“And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”

Life Love Is Tears And Love Morning Dew

Book:The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With Introductions and Notes..

Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With Introductions and Notes..

“In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.”

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Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.”

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“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.”

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Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

“It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.”

Men Life Fishes Buying

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“Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!”

Men Life Sin He Man Folly Mirth

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Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

“But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?”

Men Life Land

Book:The Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)

“I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection; but it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty — for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble titude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.”

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Author: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.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart