Not even your Britain's groans can pierce
More quotes by Walter Scott
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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