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All is possible for those who dare to die!
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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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 good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
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Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
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