Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Yet, with a weakness of mind not uncommon to great criminals, he shrank from the thoughts of his own baseness and cruelty,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“...she felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“My mind to me a kingdom is." I am rightful monarch; and, God to aid, I will not be dethroned by any… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
