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Robert Burns

The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Man Planning Wasted
Some books are lies frae end to end.
ROBERT BURNS

Book End Lying One Liner
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
ROBERT BURNS

Forever Herself Love Nature See
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Atheist God Hide Myself Time
It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
ROBERT BURNS

Guide Honesty Support True 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.
ROBERT BURNS

Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS

One Liner Short
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
ROBERT BURNS

Art Burn Silver
God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNS

Be Yourself God Myself Personality
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNS

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.
ROBERT BURNS

Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS

Commission Life Oneself Time
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Happiness Morning Nature Wind
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS

Friendship One Liner World
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS

Desire Learning Nature Spark

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.

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