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
religious pain real
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.
religious lying men
My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
dead footsteps foreign hath heart himself home man native soul wandering whose within
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand?
faithful lady lovely trusting wish
To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.
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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
cat mind mysterious
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
birthday names glorious-life
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
exact left music speaks whispers
We're going to come back the exact same way we left off -- as The Whispers. We do R&B music -- lyric-conscious music that speaks to the adults. That's what The Whispers are all about.
age crowded fill glorious hour life sensual sound worth
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
brother father four groups grown hear heyday high jazz junior listening met motown today tops
We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no different than most groups in that we wanted to be like the Miracles, the Four Tops and the Temptations. But my brother Scotty and I had grown up listening to groups like the Four Freshmen. Our father was a big jazz enthusiast, too. So what you hear today is an amalgamation of all that.
christmas half heart oft poor
A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.
chisel finer form
And ne'er did a Grecian chisel traceA nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face.
horse land spurs
Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
revenge fate gold
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!