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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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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them a change of motives as well as of action.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Certainly, quoth Athelstane, women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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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.
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My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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Lambe them, lads! lambe them! a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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