O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
ROBERT BURNSPrudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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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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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. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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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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