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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
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My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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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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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.
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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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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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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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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.
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