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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

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And may you better reck the rede, than ever did th' adviser.

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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

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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 daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.

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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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

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Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.

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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

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Nae man can tether time or tide.

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Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet, How mony lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

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A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.

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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

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