Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNSPrudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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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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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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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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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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To step aside is human.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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