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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.

Robert Burns

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Best Fear Heart Hell Honesty Man Need
It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
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
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Commission Life Oneself Time
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Desire Enemy Friendship Heart Love Myself Peace Tears
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.

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