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In a long journey straw waighs.
In a long journey straw waighs.
Nature drawes more then ten teemes.
Nature drawes more then ten teemes.
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
God helps those who help themselves.
God helps those who help themselves.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
