Quotes by James Hogg - Page 1

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.
James Hogg / Poet
Men
Firsts
Mind
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That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!
James Hogg / Poet
Desert
Dumb
Voice
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What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
James Hogg / Poet
Men
Animal
Lambs
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The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.
James Hogg / Poet
Bud
Rose
Sweet
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O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!
James Hogg / Poet
Life
Body
Love Is
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Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
James Hogg / Poet
Damnation
People
Religious
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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 Hogg / Poet
Dog
Land
Scotland
Shepherds
Shepherd
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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 Hogg / Poet
Broken
Sorrow
World
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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 Hogg / Poet
Friendship
Dog
May
Shepherds
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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 Hogg / Poet
Dog
Sweetheart
Good Better May
Perhaps
Shepherd
Trusty
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It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.
James Hogg / Poet
Capable
Force
Hands
Hills
Maintaining
Whole
Drive
Gather
Houses
Profits
Require
Stock
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The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.
James Hogg / Poet
Greater
Midnight
Propriety
Rising
Shepherds
Sun
Assisted
Charge
Effected
Entirely
Forest
Himself
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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 Hogg / Poet
Dwelling Place
Love Is
Sweet
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He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
James Hogg / Poet
Conclusion
Feet
Practice
Prayer
Ran
Seconds
Worship
Bad One
Barking
Round
Uniform
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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.
James Hogg / Poet
Food
Doctors
Fashion
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He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.
James Hogg / Poet
Eagerness
Never Forget
Discovered
Herding
Scarcely
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