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Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us

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On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

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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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'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

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

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Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.

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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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

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

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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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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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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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

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Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

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