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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.

Robert Burns

I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
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
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.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
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
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
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
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Glory King Life Victory
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
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
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
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
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

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.

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