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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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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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Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
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Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
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Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
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Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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