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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Walter Scott

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore.
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Hurry no man's cattle you may come to own a donkey yourself
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Heaven know its time the bullet has its billet
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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The will to do, the soul to dare..
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
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Every hour has its end.
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Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
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For Love will still be lord of all.
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He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.
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