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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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Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
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Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them a change of motives as well as of action.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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