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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Robert Burns

Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Integrity Meaning Mindset Performance
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
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
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
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
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
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
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
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine

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