Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
Walter ScottTag: conscience honour
Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
Walter ScottTag: honour
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
Walter ScottRevenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Walter ScottTag: revenge
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter ScottWhen I reflect with what slow and limited supplies the stream of science hath hitherto descended to us, how difficult to be obtained by those most ardent in its search, how certain to be neglected by all who regard their ease; how liable to be diverted, altogether dried up, by the invasions of barbarism; can I look forward without wonder and astonishment to the lot of a succeeding generation on whom knowledge will descend like the first and second rain, uninterrupted, unabated, unbounded; fertilizing some grounds, and overflowing others; changing the whole form of social life; establishing and overthrowing religions; erecting and destroying kingdoms.
Walter ScottTag: knowledge information-technology
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
Walter ScottTag: adventure
...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
Walter ScottI will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
Walter ScottThe wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Tag: death death-and-dying pride wretch walter-scott
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