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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt there must be difficulty and danger.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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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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Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
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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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The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them a change of motives as well as of action.
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Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
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We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
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