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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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Vengeance to God alone belongs But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
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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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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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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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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
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I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
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What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
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