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Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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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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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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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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In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on! Were the last words of Marmion.
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Silence, maiden thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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.
Walter Scott
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
Walter Scott
Certainly, quoth Athelstane, women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
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