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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
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Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.
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Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.
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Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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