Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNSThe best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love 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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Life is but a day at most.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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