William Dunbar

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To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Chance
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A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Legal
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All love is lost but upon God alone.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Alone
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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Wisdom
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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Romantic
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London, thou art the flower of cities all!
- William Dunbar
Collection: Art
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London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Art
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Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Morning
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Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Chaos
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Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Joy
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Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Love Is
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Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Vices
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I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.
- William Dunbar
Collection: Fear