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1. I never had the least thought or indication of turning poet till I got once healthily in love.
   
   
2. But the cheerful Spring came kindly on/ And show'rs began to fall:/ John Barleycorn got up again/ And sore surpris'd them all.
   --John Barleycorn
   
   
3. Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
   
   
4. Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
   
   
5. Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
   
   
6. O wad some power the giftie gie us/ To see oursel's as others see us.
   
   
7. O, my luve's like a red red rose/ That's newly sprung in June:/ O my luve's like the melodie/ That's sweetly played in tune.
   
   
8. Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;/ Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;/ Some rhyme to court the country clash,/ An' raise a din;/ For me, an aim I never fash;/ I rhyme for fun.
   
   
9. Suspense is worst than disappointment.
   
   
10. There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
    
    
11. 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! 1
    --Green grow the Rashes.
    
    
12. Some books are lies frae end to end.
    --Death and Dr. Hornbook.
    
    
13. The best laid schemes o' mice and men
    Gang aft a-gley;
    And leave us naught but grief and pain
    For promised joy.
    --To a Mouse.
    
    
14. Man's inhumanity to man
    Makes countless thousands mourn.
    --Man was made to Mourn.
    
    
15. 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.
    --Epistle to James Smith.
    
    
16. Misled by fancy's meteor ray,
    By passion driven;
    But yet the light that led astray
    Was light from heaven.
    --The Vision.
    
    
17. Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    And never brought to mind?
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    And days o' lang syne?
    --Auld Lang Syne.