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It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
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Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
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For love is heaven and heaven is love.
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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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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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I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
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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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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
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In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
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Look not thou on beauty's charming Sit thou still when kings are arming Taste not when the wine-cup glistens Speak not when the people listens
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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
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