Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
Walter ScottTag: inspirational truth honesty deception lies
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.
Walter ScottTag: participation
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Walter ScottTag: inspirational
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
Walter ScottTag: humor
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.
Walter ScottTag: nobility
Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.
Walter ScottTag: honesty
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
Walter ScottA lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter ScottOnce upon a time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet, and the other a fool, which visitation, all the neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her for the sin of witchcraft.
Walter ScottHeap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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