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Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
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God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
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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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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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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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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
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All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.
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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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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
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Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
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