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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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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.
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The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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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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I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
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Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
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He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on! Were the last words of Marmion.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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