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
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.
halloween imagination mind
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
friendship true-friend clouds
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.
law broken commandments
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
heaven feelings earth
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
sympathy death grief
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
names tyrants nurse
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
inspirational soul dare
The will to do, the soul to dare.
wise men blessing
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.