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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
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It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
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You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.
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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
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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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But with morning cool repentance came.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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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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