Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNSWhat is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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To step aside is human.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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