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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
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As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.
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Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
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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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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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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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In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
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Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
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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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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
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No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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