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No pale gradations quench his ray,
No twilight dews his wrath allay.
Rokeby (1813)
Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
The Monastery (1820)
The evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactor.
The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.
The Lady of the Lake (1810)
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
The Monastery (1820)
There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.
Ivanhoe (1819)
The man, whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than himself.
Fortune may raise up or abase the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
The Talisman (1825)
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be ay sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.
The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
The Talisman (1825)
Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your ploughshare too deep into new land.
The Monastery (1820)
Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
The Monastery (1820)
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Marmion (1808)
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
Heaven knows its time; the bullet has its billet.
Count Robert of Paris (1832)
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Lady of the Lake (1810)
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Lady of the Lake (1810)
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
The Lady of the Lake (1810)