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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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In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Mystery has great charms for womanhood.
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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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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.
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The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
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Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
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A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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