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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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Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
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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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All live by seeming.
The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,
All practise it; and he who is content
With showing what he is, shall have small credit
In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.
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Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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He knew, by streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.
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Chance will not do the work — Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumbers at the helm, The very wind that wafts us toward the port May dash us on the Shelves — The steersman's part is vigilance, Blow it or rough or smooth.
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What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.
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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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What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
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As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life's uncertain race.
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A slight touch of the cynic in manner and habits, gives the physician, to the common eye, an air of authority which greatly tends to enlarge his reputation.
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We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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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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[geologists]...rin uphill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers, like sae mony road-makers run daft, to see how the warld was made.
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The deep recess of the wildwood glen, Where roe and red-deer find sheltering den, When the sun is in his power.
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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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Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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Civil war is a species of misery which introduces men to strange bedfellows.
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Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.
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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Born:
August 15, 1771
Died:
September 21, 1832
(aged 61)
Bio:
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America.
Known for:
Ivanhoe (1820)
Waverley (1814)
Rob Roy (1817)
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
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