90 ordspråk av Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott föddes den August 15th 1771 och dog den 21 September 1832
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 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. |
| A good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing |
| A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. |
| A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. |
| A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile |
| A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity |
| Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. |
| All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. |
| And come he slow, or come he fast, |
| And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high |
| Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow |
| Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn |
| Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! |
| But with morning cool repentance came. |
| Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. |
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