The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, And Correspondence.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, And Correspondence.
Burns Robert
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I have discharged all the army ofmy former pursuits, fancies, and pleasures; a motley host! and haveliterally and strictly retained only the ideas of a few friends, whichI have incorporated into a lifeguard. I trust in Dr. Johnson'sobservation, "Where much is attempted, something is done. " Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to bethought to possess: and have always despised the whining yelp ofcomplaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve. Poor Miss K. Is ailing... a good deal this winter, and begged me toremember her to you the first time I wrote to you. Surely woman, amiable woman, is often made in vain. Too delicately formed for therougher pursuits of ambition; too noble for the dirt of avarice, andeven too gentle for the rage of pleasure; formed indeed for, andhighly susceptible of enjoyment and rapture; but that enjoyment, alas!almost wholly at the mercy of the caprice, malevolence, stupidity, orwickedness of an animal at all times comparatively unfeeling, andoften brutal.
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