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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.
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Blud's thicker than water.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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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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