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Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.

Walter Scott

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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