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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
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God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
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Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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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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Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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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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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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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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Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.
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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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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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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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