The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSInspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Life is but a day at most.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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