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No love is foule, nor prison fair.
No love is foule, nor prison fair.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
The Smith and his penny both are black.
The Smith and his penny both are black.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.
If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
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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!
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
