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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Allan Ramsay

Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi’ thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We’ll maybe return to Lochaber no more.

Good manners give integrity a bleeze, / When native virtues join the arts to please.

He that has just enough can soundly sleep; / The o’ercome only fashes fowk to keep.

Let fouk bode weel, and strive to do their best; / Nae mair’s required; let Heaven mak’ out the rest.

Nineteen nay-says are half a grant.

The best is but in season best.

Thrice happy life that’s from ambition free.

What signifies your gear? / A mind that’s scrimpit never wants some care.

What was my morning’s thought, at night’s the same; / The poor and rich but differ in the name. / Content’s the greatest bliss we can procure / Frae ’boon the lift; without it kings are poor.