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Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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I was not always a man of woe.
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The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
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Lambe them, lads! lambe them! a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
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He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
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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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