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Every hour has its end.
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 fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
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It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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'Tis an old tale, and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
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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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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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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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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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The will to do, the soul to dare..
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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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For Love will still be lord of all.
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Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
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