A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
WALTER SCOTTA good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
WALTER SCOTTThen hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTTWe build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTA sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTTRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTTWho, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
WALTER SCOTTSome feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
WALTER SCOTTFrom my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTNovember’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
WALTER SCOTTOne or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTTWhen true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
WALTER SCOTTA sinful heart makes feeble hand.
WALTER SCOTTAnd better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
WALTER SCOTTCome fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
WALTER SCOTTRecollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
WALTER SCOTT