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About Walter Scott

Walter Scott was a 18th-century Scottish novelist. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality
  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ”
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“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”
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“Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!”
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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
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“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
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