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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
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Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
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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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Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
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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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come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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Spur not an unbroken horse put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
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O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood!
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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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