Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNSBut 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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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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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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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