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Quotes from The Monastery — Walter Scott

1771–1832 Scotland

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

The Monastery (1820)

Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!

The Monastery (1820)

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

The Monastery (1820)

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your ploughshare too deep into new land.

The Monastery (1820)

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

The Monastery (1820)

But with the morning cool reflection came.

The Monastery (1820)

And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

The Monastery (1820)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Scott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.