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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them a change of motives as well as of action.
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What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
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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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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
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No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
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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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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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