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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

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The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

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O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

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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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Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

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[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

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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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All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

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But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

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A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

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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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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

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