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Spur not an unbroken horse put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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