Quote #38

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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  1. When Nature her great masterpiece designed, And framed her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan, She fo…
  2. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, …
  3. The voice of Nature loudly cries, And many a message from the skies, That something in us never dies.
  4. She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a lo'esome wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
  5. This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain, To run the twelvemonth's length again.
  6. The golden Hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my Dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
  7. Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream…
  8. But, oh! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early.

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