O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
ROBERT BURNSThe honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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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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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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