James Hogg quotes
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“O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.116
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“Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (2016). “Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories: Scottish Classics: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Three Perils of Man, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Shepherd’s Calendar and Other Tales”, p.151, e-artnow
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“What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg, James Thomson, Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Scottish Gothic: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The City of Dreadful Night, A Beleaguered City”, p.108, Palimpsest Book Production Limited
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“If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.”
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“That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (1855). “The Poetical Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: With an Autobiography; and Illustrative Engravings, Chiefly from Original Drawings”, p.294
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“Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (1829). “The Shepherd's Calendar”, p.214
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“The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (1866). “The works of the Ettrick shepherd”, p.430
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“Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (1840). “The poetical works of the Ettrick shepherd: including the Queen's wake, Pilgrims of the sun, Mador of the moor, Mountain bard, &c. &c”, p.168
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“A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack (1995). “The shepherd's calendar”, Edinburgh Univ Pr
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“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (2016). “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Gothic Classic): Psychological Thriller”, p.153, e-artnow
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“Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!”
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.16
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