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

Robert Burns

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
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
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
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
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
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
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
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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
ROBERT BURNS

Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
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

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

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