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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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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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For Love will still be lord of all.
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Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
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Fair play is a jewel.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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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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I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
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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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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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But with morning cool repentance came.
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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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