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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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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
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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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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
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Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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Hurry no man's cattle you may come to own a donkey yourself
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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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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
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As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.
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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
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