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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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Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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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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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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Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
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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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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood!
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
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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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It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
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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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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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