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Men Quotes by Walter Scott
- Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the…
- When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
- The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
- Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er…
- It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
- Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
- But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
- Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
- He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
- But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
- Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
- In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
- True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
- England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas…
- All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
- The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have…
- Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
- 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…
- A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
- I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use…
- Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your…
- Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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