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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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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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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
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It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
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In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed In war, he mounts the warrior's steed In halls, in gay attire is seen In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
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Dear to me is my bonnie white steed Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
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We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
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Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.
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The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
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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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