Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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To step aside is human.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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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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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Life is but a day at most.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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