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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.

Walter Scott
Love, Life, Heart
'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 5, st. 13

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Walter Scott
Life, Power, Men

I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection; but it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty — for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble titude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.

Walter Scott
Life, Gratitude, Moving
"The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes".

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Walter Scott
Love, Life, Peace
The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Walter Scott
Life, Positive, Education
To J. G. Lockhart, August 1825, quoted in Lockhart 's 'Life of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 6 (1837) ch. 2

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

Walter Scott
Life, Men, Mirth
Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.388

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

Walter Scott
Life, Men, Land
Sir Walter Scott (2014). “The Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Walter Scott
Life, Pain, Suits
Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.102

Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.

Walter Scott
Life, Fate, Sound
Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.48

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Walter Scott
Life, Love Is, Tears
Sir Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With Introductions and Notes..”, p.202

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott
Love, Life, Stars
Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.31

It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.

Walter Scott
Life, Men, Buying
'The Antiquary' (1816) ch. 11

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

Walter Scott
Life, Memories, Men
Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.324