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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Silence, maiden thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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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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See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
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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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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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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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