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Some touch of Nature's genial glow.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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I was not always a man of woe.
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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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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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