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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
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
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
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
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
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.
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Atheist God Hide Myself Time
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
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
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
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

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

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