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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
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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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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
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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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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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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
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November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
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For Love will still be lord of all.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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