William Edmondstoune Aytoun famous 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 Aytoun

#Grief #Woe #Fame
Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!
-- William Edmondstoune Aytoun

#Heart #Plaid #Beats
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.
-- William Edmondstoune Aytoun

#Daughter #Believe #Son
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 Aytoun

#Fashion #Lying #Broken
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 Aytoun

#Men #Land #Feuds
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 Aytoun

#Hero #Rooms #Prison
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
-- William Edmondstoune Aytoun

#Scotland #Giving #Scottish
The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree
-- William Edmondstoune Aytoun

#Home #Tree #Heaven
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 Aytoun

#Daughter #Believe #Son

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

William Edmondstoune Aytoun famous quotes

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