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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
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Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
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The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Look not thou on beauty's charming Sit thou still when kings are arming Taste not when the wine-cup glistens Speak not when the people listens
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You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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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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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Threatened folk live long.
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