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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
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Heaven know its time the bullet has its billet
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As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.
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It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
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