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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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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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Certainly, quoth Athelstane, women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Give me an honest laugher.
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
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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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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.
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