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Chess is a sad waste of brains.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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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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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
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Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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All is possible for those who dare to die!
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The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
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Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
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The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
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Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
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