O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
ROBERT BURNSGod knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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