James Hogg Quotes

• What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

  James Hogg

  Animal, Men, Lambs

  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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• Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

  James Hogg

  Men, Mind, Firsts

  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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• 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

  Fashion, Food, Doctors

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• That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

  James Hogg

  Voice, Dumb, Desert

  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 Hogg

  Dog, Land, Shepherds

  James Hogg (1829). “The Shepherd's Calendar”, p.214

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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

  Broken, Sorrow, World

  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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• The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

  James Hogg

  Sweet, Rose, Bud

  James Hogg (1866). “The works of the Ettrick shepherd”, p.430

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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

  Life, Love Is, Body

  James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.116

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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

  Friendship, Dog, Shepherds

  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 Hogg

  Religious, People, Damnation

  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 Hogg

  Sweet, Love Is, Dwelling Place

  James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.16

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