Part 12 (1/2)

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A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity

--_Addison_

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When thy brother has lost all that he ever had, and lies languishi+ng, and even gasping under the utmost extremities of poverty and distress, dost thou think to lick hiue?

--_South_

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_A Saying of Napoleon_--Once at St Helena, alking with a lady, sory tone, ordered the, ”Respect the burden, ery of the hu of society; and it was a wise saying of a Chinese Emperor that, ”If there was a man who did not work, or a woer in the Empire”

--_Dr H D Northrop_

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No one knows the weight of another's burden

--_German_

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The hter our oill be

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WHAT WE OWE TO ROBERT BURNS

Burns has been one of the world awakeners His voice rang out of the stillness, like the clear sweet notes of a bugle horn, and his songs were sung with a nerve and strength of nature that stirred to its depths the popular heart

Describing Robert Burns' conversational gifts, Mr Carlyle wrote: ”They were the theracefullest allusions of courtesy to the highest fire of passionate speech, loud floods of s of affection, laconic eht, all were in hinity of man as man, irrespective of the accidents of poverty or wealth

”The rank is but the guinea's sta to deliver old, and of such rank as kings can confer on even the most worthless

”The hs at a' that”

He opened the eyes of the Scottish people, at holoith the hope of a day--

”When man to man the world o'er Shall brithers be for a' that”