O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
ROBERT BURNSLook abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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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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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 best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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To step aside is human.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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