The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSInspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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