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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
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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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It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
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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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Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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