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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again but if once cracked can never be repaired.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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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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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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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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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
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In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed In war, he mounts the warrior's steed In halls, in gay attire is seen In hamlets, dances on the green. 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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Vengeance to God alone belongs But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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Blud's thicker than water.
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