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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
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We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
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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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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
Walter Scott
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
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The will to do, the soul to dare..
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For love is heaven and heaven is love.
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