Come 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 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 SCOTTCaution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTTThe chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
WALTER SCOTTCredit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
WALTER SCOTTBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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 SCOTTSleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTThe happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTTSteady of heart and stout of hand.
WALTER SCOTTFrom my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
WALTER SCOTTThe will to do, the soul to dare.
WALTER SCOTT