Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNS
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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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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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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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