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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
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The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
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O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.
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Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
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The will to do, the soul to dare..
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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
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