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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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Dear to me is my bonnie white steed Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
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A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
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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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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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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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But with morning cool repentance came.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
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Chess is a sad waste of brains.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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