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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

Robert Burns

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.
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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Break Forever Heart Kind Love See
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
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
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
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
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Art Burn Silver
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

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