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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
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Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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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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Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
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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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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
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For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
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Spur not an unbroken horse put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
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Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
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