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Musicologist Inspirational Quotes (3249)

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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
Walter Scott
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
Walter Scott
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
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It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
Walter Scott
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'Tis an old tale, and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
Walter Scott
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
Walter Scott
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
Walter Scott
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.
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The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
Walter Scott
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore.
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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
Walter Scott
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
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In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
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Heaven know its time the bullet has its billet
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Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Walter Scott
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