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'Charge, Chester, charge! on,...

'Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!' Were the last words of Marmion.

Walter Scott 283 quotes

There is a southern proverb - ...

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

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Despite those titles, power, a...

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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But with morning cool repentan...

But with morning cool repentance came.

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Ridicule often checks what is ...

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

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What a strange scene if the su...

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

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We often praise the evening cl...

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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What skilful limner e'er would...

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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The race of humankind would pe...

The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.

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Covetousness bursts the sack a...

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

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Stood for his country's glory ...

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

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Call it not vain: they do not ...

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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The playbill, which is said to...

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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Sordid selfishness doth contra...

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

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Alas!... what is it, valiant k...

Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?

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Adversity is like the period o...

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

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And better had they ne'er been...

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

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All is possible for those who ...

All is possible for those who dare to die!

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Still are the thoughts to memo...

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

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Hurry no man's cattle; you may...

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....