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
gay thinking clouds
We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
cat mysterious kind
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
blessed sleep night
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
silence tongue maidens
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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.
wisdom truth lying
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
new-year cheer holiday
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
wine glasses poor
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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.
dog sorry loss
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?
dog short-life loss
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
hope dawn rose-flower
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
life gratitude moving
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
leadership educational school
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.