Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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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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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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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To step aside is human.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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