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A few seem favourites of fate, In pleasure's lap caress'd; Yet, think not all the rich and great Are likewise truly blest. - [Fate] A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform. - [Promises] And last, the crown of a' my grief. - [Proverbs] Be Britain still to Britain true, Amang oursels united; For never but by British hands, Maun British wrangs be righted. - [England] Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave? - [Proverbs] But facts are chiels that winna ding, An downa be disputed. - [Facts] But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when use real ills perplex them, They make enow themselves to vex them. - [Care] But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. - [Proverbs] Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy. - [Proverbs] Cock up your beaver. - [Proverbs] Dearly bought the hidden treasure finer feelings can bestow. - [Sensibility] Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. - [Despair] Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character which I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly, feeble resolve. - [Decision] For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor. - [Gold] From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs. - [Scotland] Gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honor; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent. - [Independence] Great for good, or great for evil. - [Frailty] He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship Goat" he says, with solemn air. - [Worship] Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! - [Proverbs] I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly feeble resolve. - [Complaining] I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch. - [Proverbs] In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.(Browning, E.B.} The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend. - [Work] Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs himself life's mad career, Wild as the wave? - [Proverbs] It's hardly in a body's power To keep at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd; How best o' chiels are whyles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na how to wear't. - [Discontent] It's no' in books, it's no' in lear, To make us truly blest; If happiness has not her seat And center in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest. - [Happiness] Displaying page 1 of 7 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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