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Mystery has great charms for womanhood.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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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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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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Silence, maiden thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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For love is heaven and heaven is love.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.
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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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