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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
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Dear to me is my bonnie white steed Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
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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.
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