"Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages."

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"The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!"

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"It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once prove accurst."

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"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice."

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"In the great right of an excessive wrong."

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"This could but have happened once,-- And we missed it, lost it forever."

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""With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!"

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"So may a glory from defect arise."

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"And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,--comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable."

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"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

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"For I say this is death and the sole death,-- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest."

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"What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me."

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"What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same."

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"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new!"

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"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"

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"It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth,--to mouths like mine, at least."

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"Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. . . . . . . . No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old; Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold."

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"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."

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"Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!"

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"For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is."

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"Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!"

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"Some wee short hours ayont the twal."

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"He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God," he says with solemn air."

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"Perhaps Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name."

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"For a' that, and a' that, And twice as muckle 's a' that."

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"Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human."

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"I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!"

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

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"Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes; Flow gently, I 'll sing thee a song in thy praise."

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"Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale."

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"Gars auld claes look amaist as weel 's the new."

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"An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!"

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"Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom."

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"O Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, To joy and play."

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"And like a passing thought, she fled In light away."

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"Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon."

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"Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn."

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"When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare."

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"O life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!"

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"Some books are lies frae end to end."

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"And there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation."

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"Oh whistle, and I 'll come to ye, my lad."

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"The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy."

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"Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven."

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"And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did the adviser!"

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"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?"

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"What 's done we partly may compute, But know not what 's resisted."

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"The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border."

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"Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion."

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"If naebody care for me, I 'll care for naebody."

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