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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
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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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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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Ambition is no cure for love!
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore.
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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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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
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What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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