William Edmondstoune Aytoun quotes
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“They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.
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“Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171
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“Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoiled to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had the mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.”
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“Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God!”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.105
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“Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : Theodore Martin (sir.), William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1866). “The book of ballads [by sir T. Martin and W.E. Aytoun] ed. by Bon Gaultier”, p.128
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“He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.
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“Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171
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“The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1921). “Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun”
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“Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.”
-- William Edmondstoune AytounSource : "Firmilian: A "spasmodic" Tragedy".
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“Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.26
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“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
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“But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.”
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“Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.”
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“I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.”
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