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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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But with morning cool repentance came.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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For Love will still be lord of all.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
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