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Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?
Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
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!
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.
Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
