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!
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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