{"id":34436,"date":"2016-06-20T16:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T22:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=34436"},"modified":"2016-06-20T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T22:01:58","slug":"some-thoughts-from-sir-walter-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/06\/some-thoughts-from-sir-walter-scott.html","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts from Sir Walter Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"What<\/a>
Shown here in an 1822 portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), a native of Edinburgh, wrote such works as \u201cIvanhoe,\u201d \u201cRob Roy,\u201d \u201cThe Lady of the Lake,\u201d \u201cWaverley,\u201d and \u201cThe Bride of Lammermoor.\u201d \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.<\/span><\/p>\n

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention\u2026 It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.<\/span><\/p>\n

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The monument to Sir Walter Scott \u2014 said to be the largest monument dedicated to an author in the entire world \u2014 on Princes Street, in Edinburgh
(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Breathes there the man with soul so dead,<\/span>
\nWho never to himself hath said,<\/span>
\n\u201cThis is my own, my native land\u201d?<\/span>
\nWhose heart hath n\u2019er within him burned<\/span>
\nAs home his footsteps he hath turned . . . ?<\/span>
\nIf such there be, go mark him well . . .<\/span>
\nThe wretch, concentrated all in self,<\/span>
\n. . . \u00a0Doubly dying shall go down<\/span>
\nTo the vile dust from whence he sprung,<\/span>
\nUnwept, unhonor\u2019d, and unsung.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Posted from Edinburgh, Scotland<\/p>\n

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