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• It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Here 's a Health to Them that 's Awa'...
• Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woma
  Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human....
• What 's done we partly may compute, But know not what 's resisted.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Address to the Unco Guid...
• He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
  -- Robert Hall (1764-1831) -- Gregory's Life of Hall...
• Man is his own star; and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.
  -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune...
• An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators.
  He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power....
• From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad
  Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God....
• Always make water when you can. -- Duke of Wellingto
• If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent i
  A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it....