The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNSAnd 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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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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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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