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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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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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A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
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