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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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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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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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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
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The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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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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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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In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Hurry no man's cattle you may come to own a donkey yourself
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Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours.
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Threatened folk live long.
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Lambe them, lads! lambe them! a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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