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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Robert Burns

God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
ROBERT BURNS

Atheist God Hide Myself Time
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
ROBERT BURNS

Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
ROBERT BURNS

Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS

Critics Fame Path Struggle
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
ROBERT BURNS

Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
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
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Integrity Meaning Mindset Performance
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNS

Love Man Wisdom

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

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