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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.

Robert Burns

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Happiness Human Life True Wife
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
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
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
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
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.
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Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present 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
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Forever Herself Love Nature See
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
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
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face

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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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