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come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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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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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
Walter Scott
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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The will to do, the soul to dare..
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
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