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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.

Robert Burns

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
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 heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
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
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Danger Devil Face Inspirational
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
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
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.

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