When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNSO, 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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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