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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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Give me an honest laugher.
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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
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Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
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Every hour has its end.
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
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