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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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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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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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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
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But with morning cool repentance came.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
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Silence, maiden thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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I was not always a man of woe.
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