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Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
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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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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 willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!
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Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
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Vengeance to God alone belongs But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
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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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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
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