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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
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The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.
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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
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In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
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It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.
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