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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Look not thou on beauty's charming Sit thou still when kings are arming Taste not when the wine-cup glistens Speak not when the people listens
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
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The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
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The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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