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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

Robert Burns

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Danger Devil Face Inspirational
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Life Myself Obstacle Path Road Struggle
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Break Forever Heart Kind Love See
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle

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