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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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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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My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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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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A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
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Vengeance to God alone belongs But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
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It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
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The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt there must be difficulty and danger.
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November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
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Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
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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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Certainly, quoth Athelstane, women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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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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