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It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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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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My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
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A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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Mystery has great charms for womanhood.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
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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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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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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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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Silence, maiden thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
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