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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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Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
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He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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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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Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
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Spur not an unbroken horse put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
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...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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