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
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.
love best-friend men
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
life power men
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.
wisdom children grace
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
character self excellence
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
sky red november
November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
responsibility snow matrimony
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
christmas wind woods
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.