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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Robert Burns

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
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
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
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
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
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Blessing Glory King Life Victory
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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Happiness Morning Nature Wind
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
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
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
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
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
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
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
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

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