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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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Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
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Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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