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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Robert Burns

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
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.
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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Bloom Flower Forever Happiness Moments River
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
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
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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Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
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.
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Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex

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