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

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
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O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood!
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Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
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A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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'Tis an old tale, and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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