Despite Quote by Walter Scott

“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he…

— Walter Scott

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath…

— Walter Scott

“There was a warrior once who fought Against man's subtlest, mightiest foe, And more than valiant deeds he wrought T' effect th' enslaver's overthrow.…

— Thomas Gillet

“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even…

— Herman Melville

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the…

— Matthew Arnold

“LO! THY DREAD EMPIRE, CHAOS! IS RESTOR’D; LIGHT DIES BEFORE THY UNCREATING WORD; THY HAND, GREAT ANARCH! LETS THE CURTAIN FALL; AND UNIVERSAL DARKNESS…

— Alexander Pope

“When the Creator banished from his sight Frail man to dark mortality's abode, And granted him a late return to light, Only by treading…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned”

— Edward Abbey

“Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in a moment. Damned…

— William Cowper

“wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety,…

— Bernard Lewis

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without…

— Anne Bradstreet

“...for neither do the spirits damned Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth which glory excites, Or…

— John Milton