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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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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 monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
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Hurry no man's cattle you may come to own a donkey yourself
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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
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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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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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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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