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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
Walter Scott
He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
Walter Scott
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as it was said to me.
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I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
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Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Walter Scott
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
Walter Scott
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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Fair play is a jewel.
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