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Welcome as the flowers in May.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them a change of motives as well as of action.
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Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours.
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Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.
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But with morning cool repentance came.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Chess is a sad waste of brains.
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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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