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Letter "S" » Sir Walter Scott
"Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Growth
"Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
And smooth his path from earth to heaven!"
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Guilt
"In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Help
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Honesty
"And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Honeysuckles
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry
decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters
through a marsh, without either honour or observation."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Inspirational
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Life
"In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand."
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Listening
"Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and for ever!"
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Loss
"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!"
Author: Sir Walter Scott
About: Love of Country
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