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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Robert Burns

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
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
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
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
ROBERT BURNS

Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise
Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS

Change Man One Liner Time
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
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!
ROBERT BURNS

Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS

Hope Success Wings
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS

Critics Fame Path Struggle
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS

Fall Moments River Snow
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
ROBERT BURNS

Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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