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.
ROBERT BURNSWhen 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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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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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 facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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