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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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For Love will still be lord of all.
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
Walter Scott
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
Walter Scott
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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In the name of God! said Gurth, how came they prisoners? and to whom? Our master was too ready to fight, said the Jester, and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
Walter Scott
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Walter Scott
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
Walter Scott
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Walter Scott
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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