When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNSThe 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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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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