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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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I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
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Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.
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For love is heaven and heaven is love.
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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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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
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Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
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...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.
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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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