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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
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Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.
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In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed In war, he mounts the warrior's steed In halls, in gay attire is seen In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
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The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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