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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

Robert Burns

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 best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
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
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
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Health Heaven Myself Peace Warm
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Gold Life Light Myself Wings
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
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
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
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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