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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Great for good, or great for evil.

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Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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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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To step aside is human.

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At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.

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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.

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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

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Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

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If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

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