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You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
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!
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
