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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506422" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Address to the Unco Guid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Son, these maxims make a rule, <br>An' lump them aye thegither; <br>The Rigid Righteous is a fool, <br>The Rigid Wise anither: <br>The cleanest corn that ere was dight <br>May hae some pyles o' caff in; <br>So ne'er a fellow creature slight <br>For random fits o' daffin. <br>Solomon.--Eccles. ch. vii. verse 16 </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O ye wha are sae guid yoursel', <br>Sae pious and sae holy, <br>Ye've nought to do but mark and tell <br>Your neibours' fauts and folly! <br>Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill, <br>Supplied wi' store o' water; <br>The heapèd happer's ebbing still, <br>An' still the clap plays clatter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear me, ye venerable core, <br>As counsel for poor mortals <br>That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door <br>For glaikit Folly's portals: <br>I, for their thoughtless, careless sakes, <br>Would here propone defences-- <br>Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, <br>Their failings and mischances. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye see your state wi' theirs compared, <br>And shudder at the niffer; <br>But cast a moment's fair regard, <br>What makes the mighty differ? <br>Discount what scant occassion gave, <br>That purity ye pride in; <br>And (what's aft mair than a' the lave) <br>Your better art o' hidin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think, when your castigated pulse <br>Gies now and then a wallop, <br>What ragings must his veins convulse, <br>That still eternal gallop! <br>Wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail, <br>Right on ye scud your sea-way; <br>But in the teeth o' baith to sail, <br>It maks a unco lee-way. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See Social Life and Glee sit down, <br>All joyous and unthinking, <br>Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown <br>Debauchery and Drinking: <br>O would they stay to calculate <br>Th' external consequences; <br>Or your more dreaded hell to state <br>Damnation of expenses! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye high, exalted, virtuous dames, <br>Tied up in godly laces, <br>Before ye gie poor Frailty names, <br>Suppose a change o' cases; <br>A dear-lov'd lad, convenience snug, <br>A treach'rous inclination-- <br>But let me whisper i' your lug, <br>Ye're aiblins nae temptation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then gently scan your brother man, <br>Still gentler sister woman; <br>Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, <br>To step aside is human; <br>One point must still be greatly dark,-- <br>The moving Why they do it; <br>And just as lamely can ye mark, <br>How far perhaps they rue it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who made the heart, 'tis He alone <br>Decidedly can try us; <br>He knows each chord, its various tone, <br>Each spring, its various bias: <br>Then at the balance let's be mute, <br>We never can adjust it; <br>What's done we partly may compute, <br>But know not what's resisted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Burns">Robert Burns</a><div class=q>
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An' lump them aye thegither; 
The Rigid Righteous is a fool, 
The Rigid Wise anither: 
The cleanest corn that ere was dight 
May hae some pyles o' caff in; 
So ne'er a fellow creature slight 
For random fits o' d..."></div>
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