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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.
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Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
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Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours.
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
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Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
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Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
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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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The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
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In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
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The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
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