Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a
buff jerkin in a most read more

As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a
buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance?

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!

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . read more

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.

In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Make hay while the sun shines.

But we are all men
In our own natures frail.

But we are all men
In our own natures frail.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

Such crimes has superstition caused.